Known for restoring vitality and superior craftsmanship to the crime thriller, American filmmaker Michael Mann has long been regarded as a talented triple threat capable of moving effortlessly between television and feature films as a writer, director, and executive producer. His unique visual sense and thematic approach are evident in the Emmy Award-winning The Jericho Mile (1979), the cult favorite The Keep (1983), the American epic The Last of the Mohicans (1992), and the Academy Award-nominated The Insider (1999) as well as his most recent works—Ali (2001), Miami Vice (2006), and Public Enemies (2009).

The Philosophy of Michael Mann provides an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the work of this highly accomplished filmmaker, exploring the director's recognizable visual style and the various on-screen and philosophical elements he has tested in his thirty-five-year career. The essays in this wide-ranging book will appeal to fans of the revolutionary filmmaker and to philosophical scholars interested in the themes and conflicts that drive his movies.

Michael Mann and Non-Place: A Nietzschean Element in Mann's Modern Crime Films
Awakened to Chaos: Outsiders in The Jericho Mile and Thief
Existential Mann
Do You See? Reflecting on Evil in Manhunter
Mann and Ubermensch: Evil and Power in Manhunter
Blood in the Moonlight: Towards an Aesthetics of Horror in The Keep and Manhunter
Style, Meaning, and Myth in Public Enemies
Interiorization in Public Enemies
Mannerism: Neoclassical Style in the Films of Michael Mann
The Ethics of Contracts, Conscience, and Courage in The Insider
Commodification of the Law: The Disembodiment of Justice in the Films of Michael Mann
Subjectivity and the Ethics of Duty in Michael Mann's Cinema
Natural Man, Natural Rights, and Eros: Conflicting States of Nature and Definitions of Love in The Last of the Mohicans
Emotion, Truth, and Space in Heat
Mann's Biopics and the Methodology of Philosophy: Ali and The Insider