A companion to Martin Scorsese / edited by Aaron Baker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, Aaron, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors

Wiley Blackwell companions to film directors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scorsese, Martin--Criticism and interpretation.

Scorsese, Martin.

Motion picture producers and directors--United States--20th century.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 484 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015.

Contents:

Introduction: artistic solutions to sociological problems / 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 E. 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 R. Lohr

Issues of race and ethnicity in Martin Scorsese presents The blues and Boardwalk empire / Jonathan J. Cavallero

Form and the filmmaking process. Martin Scorsese and 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 D. 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 Kredell

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 / Leger Grindon

The last temptation of Christ: queering the divine / Daniel S. Cutrara

The cinematic seduction of not a "Good fella" / Bambi Haggins

Hugo and the (re-) invention of Martin Scorsese / Guerric DeBona.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Companion to Martin Scorsese

ISBN:

1444338617

9781444338614

OCLC:

897336733

Publisher Number:

99963559276