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A Companion to Martin Scorsese A Companion to Martin Scorsese “This valuable book brings the exceptional scale of Martin Scorsese’s film work into clear view. His achievements are monumental, and the essays collected in this work provide wonderfully detailed and vivid analyses of his oeuvre. A comprehensive study of the most exciting filmmaker working today.” Robert Burgoyne, University of St Andrews A Companion to Martin Scorsese, Revised Edition is a comprehensive collection of original essays assessing the career of one of America’s most prominent contemporary filmmakers. The first reference work of its kind, this book contains contributions from influential scholars in North America and Europe. The essays use a variety of analytic approaches to study numerous aspects of Scorsese’s work, from his earliest films to his place within the history of American and world cinema. They consider his work in relation to auteur theory, the genres in which he has worked, his use of popular music, and his recent involvement with film preservation. Several of the essays offer fresh interpretations of some of Scorsese’s most influential films, including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, GoodFellas, Gangs of New York, Hugo, and The Irishman. Others take a broader approach and discuss the representation of violence, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender, race, and other themes across his work. With insights that will interest film scholars as well as movie enthusiasts, this is an important contribution to the scholarship of contemporary American cinema.

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Author:   Aaron Baker (Arizona State University)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   1.025kg
ISBN:  

9781444338614

ISBN 10:   1444338617
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   17 October 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contributors viii Introduction: Artistic Solutions to Sociological Problems 1 Aaron Baker Part One The Pious Auteur 15 1 How Scorsese Became Scorsese: A Historiography of New Hollywood’s Most Prestigious Auteur 17 Marc Raymond 2 Smuggling Iconoclasm: European Cinema and Scorsese’s Male Antiheroes 38 Giorgio Bertellini and Jacqueline Reich 3 Italian Films, New York City Television, and the Work of Martin Scorsese 53 Laura E. Ruberto 4 The Imaginary Museum: Martin Scorsese’s Film History Documentaries 71 Robert P. Kolker 5 Images of Religion, Ritual, and the Sacred in Martin Scorsese’s Cinema 91 David Sterritt Part Two Social Contexts and Conflicts 115 6 Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and Italianamerican: Gender, Ethnicity, and Imagination 117 Aaron Baker 7 Mobsters and Bluebloods: Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence in the Perspective of his Italian American Films 133 Robert Casillo 8 Off -White Masculinity in Martin Scorsese’s Gangster Films 173 Larissa M. Ennis 9 Irish-American Identity in the Films of Martin Scorsese 195 Matt R. Lohr 10 Issues of Race, Ethnicity, and Television Authorship in Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues and Boardwalk Empire 214 Jonathan J. Cavallero Part Three Form and the Filmmaking Process 237 11 Martin Scorsese and the Music Documentary 239 Michael Brendan Baker 12 Martin Scorsese Rocks 259 Giuliana Muscio 13 Music as Cultural Signifier of Italian/American Life in Who’s That Knocking at My Door and Mean Streets 277 Anthony D. Cavaluzzi 14 When Marty Met Bobby: Collaborative Authorship in Mean Streets and Taxi Driver 292 R. Colin Tait 15 Scorsese’s Landscape of Mortality 312 Murray Pomerance 16 Borderlines: Boundaries and Transgression in the City Films of Martin Scorsese 331 Brendan Kredell Part Four Major Films 353 17 Mean Streets as Cinema of Independence 355 Stefan Sereda 18 Taxi Driver and Veteran Trauma 373 Michael D. High 19 Filming the Fights: Subjectivity and Sensation in Raging Bull 396 Leger Grindon 20 The Last Temptation of Christ: Queering the Divine 420 Daniel S. Cutrara 21 The Cinematic Seduction of Not a “Good Fella” 442 Bambi Haggins 22 Hugo and the (Re-)Invention of Martin Scorsese 459 Guerric DeBona Index 480

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This valuable book brings the exceptional scale of Martin Scorsese's film work into clear view. His achievements are monumental, and the essays collected in this work provide wonderfully detailed and vivid analyses of his oeuvre. A comprehensive study of the most exciting filmmaker working today. Robert Burgoyne, University of St Andrews

This valuable book brings the exceptional scale of Martin Scorsese's film work into clear view. His achievements are monumental, and the essays collected in this work provide wonderfully detailed and vivid analyses of his oeuvre. A comprehensive study of the most exciting filmmaker working today. Robert Burgoyne, University of St Andrews

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Aaron Baker is Associate Professor and Area Chair of Film and Media Studies within the English Department at Arizona State University. His research focuses on sports culture, film authorship, and the representation of race, ethnicity, and gender in American cinema. He is co-editor of Out of Bounds: Sports, Media and the Politics of Identity (1997), and the author of Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film (2003) and Steven Soderbergh (2011).

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