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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 AndrewsA 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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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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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.

Author Biography

Aaron Baker is Professor of Film and Media Studies within the English Department at Arizona State University, USA. His research focuses on sports culture, film authorship, and the representation of race, ethnicity, and gender in American cinema. He is coeditor of Out of Bounds: Sports, Media and the Politics of Identity (1997), and the author of Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film (2003), Steven Soderbergh (2011), and The Baseball Film: A Transmedia and Cultural History (2022).

Table of Contents

Contributors ix Introduction: Artistic Solutions to Sociological Problems 1Aaron Baker Part One The Pious Auteur 15 1 How Scorsese Became Scorsese: A Historiography of New Hollywood's Most Prestigious Auteur 17Marc Raymond 2 Smuggling Iconoclasm: European Cinema and Scorsese's Male Antiheroes 38Giorgio Bertellini and Jacqueline Reich 3 Italian Films, New York City Television, and the Work of Martin Scorsese 53Laura E. Ruberto 4 The Imaginary Museum: Martin Scorsese's Film History Documentaries 71Robert P. Kolker 5 Images of Religion, Ritual, and the Sacred in Martin Scorsese's Cinema 91David Sterritt Part Two Social Contexts and Conflicts 115 6 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Italianamerican: Gender, Ethnicity, and Imagination 117Aaron Baker 7 Mobsters and Bluebloods: Scorsese's The Age of Innocence in the Perspective of his Italian-American Films 133Robert Casillo 8 Off-White Masculinity in Martin Scorsese's Gangster Films 173Larissa M. Ennis 9 Irish-American Identity in the Films of Martin Scorsese 195Matt R. Lohr 10 Issues of Race, Ethnicity, and Television Authorship in Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues and Boardwalk Empire 214Jonathan J. Cavallero 11 Cinema According to Marty: Scorsese as American Film Culture's Intellectual 237Marc Raymond Part Three Form and the Filmmaking Process 249 12 Martin Scorsese and the Music Documentary 251Michael Brendan Baker 13 Martin Scorsese Rocks 271Giuliana Muscio 14 Music as Cultural Signifier of Italian-American Life in Who's That Knocking at My Door and Mean Streets 289Anthony D. Cavaluzzi 15 When Marty Met Bobby: Collaborative Authorship in Mean Streets and Taxi Driver 304R. Colin Tait 16 Scorsese's Landscape of Mortality 324Murray Pomerance 17 Borderlines: Boundaries and Transgression in the City Films of Martin Scorsese 343Brendan Kredell Part Four Major Films 365 18 Mean Streets as Cinema of Independence 367Stefan Sereda 19 Taxi Driver and Veteran Trauma 385Michael D. High 20 Filming the Fights: Subjectivity and Sensation in Raging Bull 408Leger Grindon 21 The Last Temptation of Christ: Queering the Divine 432Daniel S. Cutrara 22 The Cinematic Seduction of Not a "Good Fella" 454Bambi Haggins 23 Hugo and the (Re-)Invention of Martin Scorsese 471Guerric DeBona 24 The Irishman: Cosmopolitan Authorship in the Age of Streaming Media 492Aaron Baker Index 506

Details ISBN1119685621 Series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors ISBN-10 1119685621 ISBN-13 9781119685623 Format Paperback Edited by Aaron Baker Language English Pages 528 Year 2021 UK Release Date 2021-05-03 AU Release Date 2021-05-04 NZ Release Date 2021-05-04 Author Aaron Baker Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd Publication Date 2021-05-03 Imprint Wiley-Blackwell Place of Publication Hoboken Alternative 9781444338614 DEWEY 791.430233092 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2021-05-03 Country of Publication United Kingdom We've got this

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