LEADER 04672nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910454945103321 005 20210430005045.0 010 $a1-4426-8436-4 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442684362 035 $a(CKB)1000000000793450 035 $a(OCoLC)560596974 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10292820 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000279776 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11251360 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279776 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10268151 035 $a(PQKB)10484293 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4634690 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00601111 035 $a(CaPaEBR)418914 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3262955 035 $a(DE-B1597)464007 035 $a(OCoLC)944177116 035 $a(OCoLC)999362263 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442684362 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4634690 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10295257 035 $a(OCoLC)958549290 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000793450 100 $a20071026d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGangster priest$b[electronic resource] $ethe Italian American cinema of Martin Scorsese /$fRobert Casillo 210 $aToronto ;$aBuffalo $cUniversity of Toronto Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (637 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Italian studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-9403-1 311 $a0-8020-9113-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [413]-574) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. The Immigrant Generations: Italianamerican --$t2. Scorsese as Third-Generation Italian American Artist --$t3. The First World of Martin Scorsese --$t4. 'Where's the Action?': Early Projects and Who's That Knocking at My Door? --$t5. Season of the Witch: Mean Streets --$t6. The Abject God: Raging Bull --$t7. The Society of Transgression: GoodFellas --$t8. Pariahs of a Pariah Industry: Casino --$tConclusion --$tAppendix --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aWidely acclaimed as America's greatest living film director, Martin Scorsese is also, some argue, the pre-eminent Italian American artist. Although he has treated various subjects in over three decades, his most sustained filmmaking and the core of his achievement consists of five films on Italian American subjects ? Who's That Knocking at My Door?, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, GoodFellas, and Casino ? as well as the documentary Italianamerican. In Gangster Priest Robert Casillo examines these films in the context of the society, religion, culture, and history of Southern Italy, from which the majority of Italian Americans, including Scorsese, derive. Casillo argues that these films cannot be fully appreciated either thematically or formally without understanding the various facets of Italian American ethnicity, as well as the nature of Italian American cinema and the difficulties facing assimilating third-generation artists. Forming a unified whole, Scorsese's Italian American films offer what Casillo views as a prolonged meditation on the immigrant experience, the relationship between Italian America and Southern Italy, the conflicts between the ethnic generations, and the formation and development of Italian American ethnicity (and thus identity) on American soil through the generations. Raised as a Catholic and deeply imbued with Catholic values, Scorsese also deals with certain forms of Southern Italian vernacular religion, which have left their imprint not only on Scorsese himself but also on the spiritually tormented characters of his Italian American films. Casillo also shows how Scorsese interrogates the Southern Italian code of masculine honour in his exploration of the Italian American underworld or Mafia, and through his implicitly Catholic optic, discloses its thoroughgoing and longstanding opposition to Christianity. Bringing a wealth of scholarship and insight into Scorsese's work, Casillo's study will captivate readers interested in the director's magisterial artistry, the rich social history of Southern Italy, Italian American ethnicity, and the sociology and history of the Mafia in both Sicily and the United States. 410 0$aToronto Italian studies. 606 $aItalian Americans in motion pictures 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aItalian Americans in motion pictures. 676 $a791.4302/33092 700 $aCasillo$b Robert$0920721 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454945103321 996 $aGangster priest$92218088 997 $aUNINA