Author Jean-Baptiste Thoret

Jean Baudrillard’s encounter with cinema, and cinema’s encounter with Baudrillard’s thought are the twin subjects of this extensive discussion of American cinema of the 1970s and beyond.

Mann’s film is more than a mere transposition of the 1980s television series onto the big screen; it extends the thematic and stylistic complexities of Mann’s œuvre in ways that, at first, may seem less than apparent.