Baker A Companion to Martin Scorsese

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-58569-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 528 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: WBCF - Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors

A Companion to Martin Scorsese is a comprehensivecollection of original essays assessing the career of one ofAmerica's most prominent contemporary filmmakers.
* Contains contributions from prominent scholars in North Americaand Europe that use a variety of analytic approaches
* Offers fresh interpretations of some of Scorsese's mostinfluential films, including Mean Streets, TaxiDriver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Gangs of NewYork, and Hugo
* Considers Scorsese's place within the history of American andworld cinema; his work in relation to auteur theory; the use ofpopular music and various themes such as violence, ethnicity,religion, sexuality, gender, and race in his films, and more

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baker, Aaron

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors viii
Introduction: Artistic Solutions to Sociological Problems1
Aaron Baker
Part One The Pious Auteur 15
1 How Scorsese Became Scorsese: A Historiography of NewHollywood's Most Prestigious Auteur 17
Marc Raymond
2 Smuggling Iconoclasm: European Cinema and Scorsese'sMale Antiheroes 38
Giorgio Bertellini and Jacqueline Reich
3 Italian Films, New York City Television, and the Work ofMartin Scorsese 53
Laura E. Ruberto
4 The Imaginary Museum: Martin Scorsese's Film HistoryDocumentaries 71
Robert P. Kolker
5 Images of Religion, Ritual, and the Sacred in MartinScorsese'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 Innocencein the Perspective of his Italian American Films 133
Robert Casillo
8 Off -White Masculinity in Martin Scorsese's GangsterFilms 173
Larissa M. Ennis
9 Irish-American Identity in the Films of Martin Scorsese195
Matt R. Lohr
10 Issues of Race, Ethnicity, and Television Authorship inMartin 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 inWho's That Knocking at My Door and Mean Streets 277
Anthony D. Cavaluzzi
14 When Marty Met Bobby: Collaborative Authorship in MeanStreets and Taxi Driver 292
R. Colin Tait
15 Scorsese's Landscape of Mortality 312
Murray Pomerance
16 Borderlines: Boundaries and Transgression in the City Filmsof 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 Bull396
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

Über Autor(innen)

Aaron Baker is Associate Professor and Area Chair of Film and Media Studies within the English Department at Arizona State University. His research focuses on sports culture, film authorship, and the representation of race, ethnicity, and gender in American cinema. He is co-editor of Out of Bounds: Sports, Media and the Politics of Identity (1997), and the author of Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film (2003) and Steven Soderbergh (2011).