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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
Aaron Baker (Edited by), A Baker (Author)
9781444338614, Wiley
Hardback, published 17 October 2014
496 pages
25.3 x 18 x 2.7 cm, 1.025 kg
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.” 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.
Robert Burgoyne, University of St Andrews
Contributors viii Introduction: Artistic Solutions to Sociological Problems 1 Part One The Pious Auteur 15 1 How Scorsese Became Scorsese: A Historiography of New Hollywood’s Most Prestigious Auteur 17 2 Smuggling Iconoclasm: European Cinema and Scorsese’s Male Antiheroes 38 3 Italian Films, New York City Television, and the Work of Martin Scorsese 53 4 The Imaginary Museum: Martin Scorsese’s Film History Documentaries 71 5 Images of Religion, Ritual, and the Sacred in Martin Scorsese’s Cinema 91 Part Two Social Contexts and Conflicts 115 6 Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and Italianamerican: Gender, Ethnicity, and Imagination 117 7 Mobsters and Bluebloods: Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence in the Perspective of his Italian American Films 133 8 Off -White Masculinity in Martin Scorsese’s Gangster Films 173 9 Irish-American Identity in the Films of Martin Scorsese 195 10 Issues of Race, Ethnicity, and Television Authorship in Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues and Boardwalk Empire 214 Part Three Form and the Filmmaking Process 237 11 Martin Scorsese and the Music Documentary 239 12 Martin Scorsese Rocks 259 13 Music as Cultural Signifier of Italian/American Life in Who’s That Knocking at My Door and Mean Streets 277 14 When Marty Met Bobby: Collaborative Authorship in Mean Streets and Taxi Driver 292 15 Scorsese’s Landscape of Mortality 312 16 Borderlines: Boundaries and Transgression in the City Films of Martin Scorsese 331 Part Four Major Films 353 17 Mean Streets as Cinema of Independence 355 18 Taxi Driver and Veteran Trauma 373 19 Filming the Fights: Subjectivity and Sensation in Raging Bull 396 20 The Last Temptation of Christ: Queering the Divine 420 21 The Cinematic Seduction of Not a “Good Fella” 442 22 Hugo and the (Re-)Invention of Martin Scorsese 459 Index 480
Aaron Baker
Marc Raymond
Giorgio Bertellini and Jacqueline Reich
Laura E. Ruberto
Robert P. Kolker
David Sterritt
Aaron Baker
Robert Casillo
Larissa M. Ennis
Matt R. Lohr
Jonathan J. Cavallero
Michael Brendan Baker
Giuliana Muscio
Anthony D. Cavaluzzi
R. Colin Tait
Murray Pomerance
Brendan Kredell
Stefan Sereda
Michael D. High
Leger Grindon
Daniel S. Cutrara
Bambi Haggins
Guerric DeBona
Subject Areas: Society & culture: general [JF]
