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Michael Mann - Cinema and TelevisionInterviews, 1980-2012

By Steven Sanders and R. Barton Palmer

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About this book

A reader containing 16 selected interviews with Mann

  • Provides the first reader on Michael Mann
  • Includes three interviews originally published in French periodicals and translated for this volume
  • Opens up Mann's body of work, making it available for comparison with the work of his contemporaries

This reader is the first to bring together a selection of Mann's own interviews where he reflects on his film and television productions. The sixteen interviews provide historical context, interpretation and evaluation of the auteur's work. They encompass his entire career as a feature filmmaker and television producer/director as he and others reflect on his themes, working methods, artistic development and career achievements. The book aims to open up Mann's body of work, making it available for comparison with the work of his contemporaries, and to provide fresh insights into his film and television work. A substantive introductory essay, chronology and filmography provide additional bases for understanding the interviews, essays and work of this major filmmaker.

Reviews

Editors Sanders and Palmer have expertly and artfully drawn together an essential volume of conversation and commentary　in which we are offered a meaningful engagement with the compelling ways in which Michael Mann makes moving images of subtlety and force, and in his work achieves a rare coupling of emotional intensity and intellectual nuance. Mann is deserving of much critical attention and this　lively and engrossing collection goes some distance in helping readers and viewers appreciate anew his unique achievements as a creator of enduring, culturally resonant, television and film.
I could go on and on why this book is so fantastic, but I should leave those surprises for you when you read it. Michael Mann Cinema and television interviews 1980 to 2012 is essential read for any filmmaker, fan of high-level creative, intelligent filmmaking or someone who wants to be exposed to the thoughts from one of the most distinct American filmmakers in cinema history.
Table of contents
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Michael Mann in His Interviews, Steven Sanders; 1. Four Minute Mile, Julian Fox; 2. Castle Keep, Harlan Kennedy; 3. Of Vice and Mann, Art Harris; 4. Manhunter: An Interview with Michael Mann, Alain Charlot and Marc Toullec; 5. Michael Mann: Hollywood Writer-Director-Producer, Graham Fuller; 6. Mann and His Movies, Jonathan Romney; 7. All the Corporations’ Men, Michael Sragow; 8. Smoking Gun, Stuart Husband; 9. “Ali Likes the Film a Lot, He’s Seen it Six Times”, Xan Brooks; 10. Paint it Black, Mark Olsen; 11. Mann Among Men, Michael Sragow; 12. L.A. Belongs to the Coyotes, Leif Kramp; 13. Michael Mann Interview, John Maguire; 14. A Mann’s Man’s World, Scott Foundas; 15. Number One with a Bullet, John Patterson; 16. The Study of Mann, F.X. Feeney; Chronology; Filmography; Index.
About the contributors

Steven Sanders

He is the author of the philosophical monograph Miami Vice (2005), editor of The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film (2008), a contributor to Film Noir: the Directors 2012), A Companion to Film Noir (2013), and co-editor of Hitchcock's Moral Gaze (2017).

R. Barton Palmer

R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature Emeritus at Clemson University. He is the author, editor, or general editor of many books including Hollywood’s Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (1994), After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality (2006), and A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film (2011). He is the series editor for EUP’s traditions in World Cinema, Traditions in American Cinema and International Film Stars series, and he is co-editor of five recent EUP books: Michael Mann, George Cukor, Film Noir, International Noir and The Other Hollywood Renaissance.