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Book SynopsisScorsese and Religion concerns the religious vision of the great American filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Not only will this volume explore the foundation of Scorsese’s interest in religion—namely, his relation to the Catholic Church—but it will also highlight the religious breadth of Scorsese’s corpus. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that Scorsese’s cinematic “re-presentation” of reality brings together various religious influences (Catholicism, existentialism, Buddhism, etc.) and topics such as violence, morality, nihilism, and so on. The overarching claim is that Scorsese, who indeed once claimed that his “whole life” had been “movies and religion,” cannot be properly understood without reflecting on the ways in which his religious interests are expressed in and through his art.
Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston Part 1: Scorsese and Catholicism 1 The Catholic Scorsese – or How a Seminarian Turned to the Movies Marc Raymond 2 No Way Out: Martin Scorsese and the Ecclesial Imagination Guerric DeBona,osb Part 2: Religious Influences and Themes in Scorsese’s Cinema 3 Dostoevskian Elements in Scorsese’s Cinema Christopher B. Barnett 4 The Problem of Violence in Scorsese’s Films: The Catholic Gangster as Tragic Hero John McAteer 5 Violence and Redemption in Scorsese’s Films: A Girardian Reading Cari Myers 6 Scorsese as a Critic of Modernity: The Woman Question M. Gail Hamner Part 3: Scorsese and Religion: A Selective Filmography 7 The Last Temptation of Christ: Scorsese’s Jesus among Ordinary Saints Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch 8 Scorsese’s Kundun as Catholic Encounter with the Dalai Lama and His Tibetan Dharma Kerry P.C. San Chirico 9 Pity and Pardon in Scorsese’s Palimpsest, Bringing Out the Dead Gerard Loughlin 10 Martin Scorsese’s Screening Room: Theatricality, Psychoanalysis, and Modernity in Shutter Island Stephen Mulhall 11 Reinventing Human Experience: Hugo and the Theological Possibilities of Film Clark J. Elliston 12 The Wolf of Wall Street and Economic Nihilism D. Stephen Long 13 The Global Afterlives of Silence Darren J.N. Middleton and Mark W. Dennis Index of Bible References Index of Names and Subjects
