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A Companion to Martin Scorsese is a comprehensive collection of original essays assessing the career of one of America's most prominent contemporary filmmakers. Contains contributions from prominent scholars in North America and Europe that use a variety of analytic approachesOffers fresh interpretations of some of Scorsese's most influential films, including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, and HugoConsiders Scorsese''s place within the history of American and world cinema; his work in relation to auteur theory; the use of popular music and various theme.
Introduction: artistic solutions to sociological problems / by Aaron Baker -- The pious auteur. How Scorsese became Scorsese: a historiography of new Hollywood's most prestigious auteur / Marc Raymond -- Smuggling iconoclasm: European cinema and Scorsese's male anti-heroes / Giorgio Bertellini and Jaqueline Reich -- Italian films, New York City television, and the work of Martin Scorsese / Laura Ruberto -- The imaginary museum: Martin Scorsese's film history documentaries / Robert P. Kolker -- Images of religion, ritual, and the sacred in Martin Scorsese's cinema / David Sterritt -- Social contexts and conflicts. Alice doesn't live here anymore and Italianamerican: gender, ethnicity and imagination / Aaron Baker -- Mobsters and bluebloods: Scorsese's the age of innocence in the perspective of his Italian American films / Robert Casillo -- Off-white masculinity in Martin Scorsese's gangster films / Larissa M. Ennis -- Irish American identity in the films of Martin Scorsese / Matt Lohr -- Issues of race and ethnicity in Martin Scorsese presents The blues and Boardwalk empire / Jon Cavallero -- Form and the filmmaking process. Martin Scorsese & the music documentary / Michael Brendan Baker -- Martin Scorsese rocks / Giuliana Muscio -- Music as cultural signifier of Italian/American life in Who's that knocking at my door and Mean streets / Anthony Cavaluzzi -- When Marty met Bobby: collaborative authorship in Mean streets and Taxi driver / R. Colin Tait -- Scorsese's landscape of mortality / Murray Pomerance -- Border lines: boundaries and transgression in the city films of Martin Scorsese / Brendan Krede -- Major films. Mean streets as cinema of independence / Stefan Sereda -- Taxi driver and Veteran trauma / Michael D. High -- Filming the fights: subjectivity and sensation in Raging bull (1980) / Leger Grindon -- The last temptation of Christ: queering the divine / Dan Cutrara -- The cinematic seduction of not a Good fella / Bambi Haggins -- Hugo and the (re- ) invention of Martin Scorsese / Guerric Debona.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014