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  title info:
    title: Martin Scorsese's divine comedy
    sub title: movies and religion
  name:
    name part: O'Brien, Catherine
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Catherine O'Brien draws on the structure of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy to explore Martin Scorsese's feature films from Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967-69) to Silence (2016). This is the first full-length study to focus on the trajectory of faith and doubt during this period, taking very seriously the oft-quoted words of the director himself. 'My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.' Films discussed include GoodFellas, The Last Temptation of Christ, Taxi Driver and Mean Streets, as well as the more recent The Wolf of Wall Street. In Dante's poem in 100 cantos, the Pilgrim is guided by the poet Virgil down through the circles of Hell in Inferno. He then climbs the steep Mountain of the Seven Deadly Sins in Purgatory and he finally encounters God in Paradise. Embracing this popular analogy, this study envisions Scorsese as a contemporary Dante, with his filmic oeuvre offering the dimensions of a cinematic Divine Comedy. Drawing on debates at the heart of religious studies, theology, literature and film, this book goes beyond existing explorations of religion in Scorsese's work to address issues of sin and salvation within the context of wider debates in eschatology and the afterlife.
  note: Catherine O'Brien.
  note: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Scorsese, Martin
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dante Alighieri
      name part: 1265-1321
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: Religion in motion pictures
  classification: PN1998.3.S39 O27 2018
  classification: 791.4302/33092
  identifier: 1350003271
  identifier: 9781350003279
  identifier: 2017051481
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 170816
    record change date: 20181023092918.0
    record identifier: in00003999231