A companion to Martin Scorsese / edited by Aaron Baker ; contributors, Michael Brendan Baker [and twenty-two others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, Aaron, editor.

Baker, Michael Brendan, contributor.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors.

Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scorsese, Martin--Criticism and interpretation.

Scorsese, Martin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (499 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<i>A Companion to Martin Scorsese</i> is a comprehensive collection of original essays assessing the career of one of America's most prominent contemporary filmmakers. <ul> <li>Contains contributions from prominent scholars in North America and Europe that use a variety of analytic approaches</li> <li>Offers fresh interpretations of some of Scorsese's most influential films, including <i>Mean Streets</i>, <i>Taxi Driver</i>, <i>Raging Bull</i>, <i>Goodfellas</i>, <i>Gangs of New York</i>, and <i>Hugo</i></li> <li>Considers Scorsese's place within the history of American and world cinema; his

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119685623

1119685621

9781118585542

1118585542

9781118585344

1118585348

9781118588369

1118588363

9781118585696

1118585690

OCLC:

862041552