Title: Blood in the moonlight : Michael Mann and information age cinema /
Authors: Wildermuth, Mark E., 1956-
Publisher: McFarland & Co.,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Mann, Michael, Criticism and interpretation.; Mann, Michael,; Mann, Michael; Mann, Michael; Film; Film.
Abstract: "This book examines the films of Michael Mann. Each chapter examines one of Mann's films--including Manhunter, The Keep, Last of the Mohicans, The Insider and Ali--in which the protagonist longs for a sense of human connection but is pitted against forces that devalue and destroy individuality"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Introduction: Symbolic exchange, informatics, and Michael Mann's cinema -- Sympathy and the devil: doing time in The Jericho mile (1979) -- It's a criminal world: artifice, nature, and humanity in Thief (1981) -- History, the unconscious, and hyperreality: Gothic doubles in The keep (1983) -- Renewed dialogue: indirect light, complexity, and exchange in Manhunter (1986) -- Translating ritual time and symbolic exchange: colonialism and nationalism in The last of the Mohicans (1992) -- The decay of dialogue: disguise and duplicity in Heat (1995) -- Reviewing the dialogue: information as commodity in The insider (1999) -- A blast from the past: being the people's champion in Ali (2001).