Scorsese and Religion / Edited by Christopher B. Barnett; Clark J. Elliston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnett, Christopher B., Editor.

Contributor:

Barnett, Christopher B., editor.

Elliston, Clark J., editor.

Series:

Studies in Religion and the Arts ; 15.

Studies in Religion and the Arts ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scorsese, Martin--Criticism and interpretation.

Scorsese, Martin.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 pages).

Place of Publication:

Brill 2019

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scorsese and Religion concerns the religious vision of the great American filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Not only will this volume explore the foundation of Scorsese’s interest in religion—namely, his relation to the Catholic Church—but it will also highlight the religious breadth of Scorsese’s corpus. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that Scorsese’s cinematic “re-presentation” of reality brings together various religious influences (Catholicism, existentialism, Buddhism, etc.) and topics such as violence, morality, nihilism, and so on. The overarching claim is that Scorsese, who indeed once claimed that his “whole life” had been “movies and religion,” cannot be properly understood without reflecting on the ways in which his religious interests are expressed in and through his art.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page / Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston

Dedication / Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston

Acknowledgements / Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston

Illustrations / Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston

Notes on Contributors / Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston

Introduction / Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston

Scorsese and Catholicism / Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston

The Catholic Scorsese – or How a Seminarian Turned to the Movies / Marc Raymond

No Way Out: Martin Scorsese and the Ecclesial Imagination / Guerric DeBona

Religious Influences and Themes in Scorsese’s Cinema / Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston

Dostoevskian Elements in Scorsese’s Cinema / Christopher B. Barnett

The Problem of Violence in Scorsese’s Films: The Catholic Gangster as Tragic Hero / John McAteer

Violence and Redemption in Scorsese’s Films: A Girardian Reading / Cari Myers

Scorsese as a Critic of Modernity: The Woman Question / M. Gail Hamner

Scorsese and Religion: A Selective Filmography / Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston

The Last Temptation of Christ: Scorsese’s Jesus among Ordinary Saints / Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch

Scorsese’s Kundun as Catholic Encounter with the Dalai Lama and His Tibetan Dharma1 / Kerry P.C. San Chirico

Pity and Pardon in Scorsese’s Palimpsest, Bringing Out the Dead / Gerard Loughlin

Martin Scorsese’s Screening Room: Theatricality, Psychoanalysis, and Modernity in Shutter Island / Stephen Mulhall

Reinventing Human Experience: Hugo and the Theological Possibilities of Film / Clark J. Elliston

The Wolf of Wall Street and Economic Nihilism / D. Stephen Long

The Global Afterlives of Silence / Darren J.N. Middleton and Mark W. Dennis

Back Matter

null / Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston.

Notes:

CC BY-NC

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004411401

9004411402

OCLC:

1121142830

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004411401 DOI

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access