Michael Mann - Cinema and Television

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 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.

• 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.

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.