Author : Lesley Stern
Publisher : British Film Institute
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,3 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780851705125
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Author : Lesley Stern
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253210111
This account of Martin Scorsese's films explores 2 main avenues: the way Scorsese remakes other movies (Raging Bull replays The Red Shoes and Taxi Driver as a resurgence of The Searchers); and the way viewers absorb and relate to films.
Author : Lawrence S. Friedman
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
From the urban violence and psychosis of MEAN STREETS, TAXI DRIVER, and GOODFELLAS to the romanticism of THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, and from the drama of RAGING BULL to the supremely provocative LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, this book provides a "lively, informative look at the 'consummate cineast, ' whom Steven Spielberg calls America's best and most honest director" (LIBRARY JOURNAL).
Author : Michael Koresky
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 2016-12-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780692825990
Author : Maria T. Miliora
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786483938
This study examines the life and work of acclaimed film director Martin Scorsese, showing that his films reflect his experiences growing up in a Sicilian-American-Catholic family in the tough neighborhood of New York's Little Italy. The study links the personal Scorsese, his roots, and his ethical and religious attitudes. The work examines many films from Boxcar Bertha (1972) to Bringing out the Dead (1999), with special attention given to Gangs of New York (2002) as a vehicle for Scorsese's return to his roots. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) is analyzed as a template for the Scorsese opus. The study begins with a biography of Scorsese, and then describes his films from 1963 to 2002, providing plot summaries, themes, and characters. The body of the work analyzes films in terms of male sexuality, narcissism, violence, and the place of women in the director's personal and cinematic world. In addition to showing how the themes of Scorsese's films derive from his roots, the study offers psychological analyses of his focal characters. It provides a psychological basis for understanding the dialogue and actions of the characters in the context of their respective film stories. The study shows that Scorsese's films express the values that define his worldview, which include his attitudes about masculinity, aggression, and violence.
Author : Richard Schickel
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 34,23 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307388794
With Richard Schickel as the canny and intelligent guide, these conversations take us deep into Scorsese's life and work. He reveals which films are most autobiographical, and what he was trying to explore and accomplish in other films.
Author : Christopher B. Barnett
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9004411402
Scorsese and Religion explores and analyzes the religious vision of filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s oeuvre, showing that Scorsese cannot be properly understood without reflecting on the ways that his religious interests are expressed in and through his art.
Author : Aaron Baker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,66 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1119685621
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.
Author : Jonathan J. Cavallero
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 025203614X
"[This book] explores the different ways in which Italian American directors from the 1920s to the present have responded to their ethnicity. While some directors have used film to declare their ethnic roots and create an Italian American 'imagined community,' others have ignored or even denied their background . . . Cavallero's exploration of the films of Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola,and Tarantino demonstrates how immigrant Italians fought prejudice, how later generations positioned themselves in relation to their predecessors, and how the American cinema, usually seen as a cultural instituion that works to assimlate, has also served as a forum where assimilation was resisted." -- Book cover.
Author : V. Miller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137016760
A collection of ten original essays forging new interdisciplinary connections between crime fiction and film, encompassing British, Swedish, American and Canadian contexts. The authors explore representations of race, gender, sexuality and memory, and challenge traditional categorisations of academic and professional crime writing.
