Scorsese's men : melancholia and the mob / Mark Nicholls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicholls, Mark Desmond.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scorsese, Martin--Criticism and interpretation.

Scorsese, Martin.

Men in motion pictures.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

North Melbourne, Vic. : Pluto Press, 2004.

Summary:

"Join author Mark Nicholls as he traces Martin Scorsese's central theme of melancholia, nostalgia and loss through five films from the legendary director." "The readings of these influential moments in film history provide reflection upon Scorsese's heroes and the tribal groups they are associated with - 19th century New York Society, the Italian American Mob, the Yuppified New South - and how when ultimately validated by conforming to the will of the mob this melancholic man, for all his perversions, becomes a universally adored and culturally empowered Superman of loss."--Jacket.

Contents:

The uses of melancholia: better to have lost and loved than to never to have lost at all

The age of innocence: a mean and melancholy history

Raging Bull: 'kiss the boo boo"

Taxi driver: the melancholic as flâneur

Goodfellas: among the Italians

Cape fear: the white trash angst

The melancholic momentum.

Notes:

Filmography: pages 186-188.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-185) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Nicholls, Mark Desmond. Scorsese's men.

ISBN:

1864031565

9781864031560

OCLC:

57434529

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