Description
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive collection of original essays assessing the career of one of America s most prominent contemporary filmmakers. The first reference of its kind, this book contains contributions from influential scholars in North America and Europe.
Table of ContentsContributors 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
