Video Essay: "Under His Skin: Anthony Mann's RAW DEAL"

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Channel: MUBI · 2017 · Entertainment

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A video essay by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López exploring how storytelling and abstraction, plotting and ultra-stylized mise en scène are hard to separate in Anthony Mann's films shot by John Alton: http://mubi.io/2lfHqIj
Watching the remarkable series of works forged by the collaboration of director Anthony Mann and cinematographer John Alton—including T-MEN (1947), RAW DEAL (1948), and BORDER INCIDENT (1949)—we encounter a fine-grain aesthetic in which storytelling and abstraction are hard to separate. While the plotting follows a hardboiled minimalism familiar from many B movies, the compositions, lighting schemes, and mise en scène of bodily movements pushes into startling, ultra-stylized territory. 

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