LEADER 03478nam 2200517 450 001 9910794525503321 005 20230126222246.0 010 $a1-9788-1745-2 024 7 $a10.36019/9781978817456 035 $a(CKB)4100000011999197 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6706556 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6706556 035 $a(OCoLC)1264458562 035 $a(DE-B1597)606831 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781978817456 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011999197 100 $a20220504d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMartin Scorsese and the American dream /$fJim Cullen 210 1$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$d??2021 215 $a1 online resource (181 pages) 311 $a1-9788-1742-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- A Martin Scorsese Feature Film Chronology -- Introduction: The Provincial Cosmopolitan -- 1. The Elizabethan Era -- 2. Redeeming Dreams -- 3. Impressive Failures -- 4. Dream Critiques -- 5. Recurring Dreams -- Conclusion: Dream of Life -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author. 330 $aMore than perhaps any other major filmmaker, Martin Scorsese has grappled with the idea of the American Dream. His movies are full of working-class strivers hoping for a better life, from the titular waitress and aspiring singer of Alice Doesn?t Live Here Anymore to the scrappy Irish immigrants of Gangs of New York. And in films as varied as Casino, The Aviator, and The Wolf of Wall Street, he vividly displays the glamour and power that can come with the fulfillment of that dream, but he also shows how it can turn into a nightmare of violence, corruption, and greed. This book is the first study of Scorsese?s profound ambivalence toward the American Dream, the ways it drives some men and women to aspire to greatness, but leaves others seduced and abandoned. Showing that Scorsese understands the American dream in terms of a tension between provincialism and cosmopolitanism, Jim Cullen offers a new lens through which to view such seemingly atypical Scorsese films as The Age of Innocence, Hugo, and Kundun. Fast-paced, instructive, and resonant, Martin Scorsese and the American Dream illuminates an important dimension of our national life and how a great artist has brought it into focus. 606 $aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aAmerican Dream in art 610 $aAmerican Dream, filmmaker, Martin Scorsese, immigrants, immigration, cosmopolitanism, provincialism, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Aviator, Casino, Gangs of New York, The Age of Innocence, memoir, film, corruption, greed, money, power, status, elitism, upper class, poverty, social mobility. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican Dream in art. 676 $a791.430233092 700 $aCullen$b Jim$f1962-$01144308 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794525503321 996 $aMartin Scorsese and the American dream$93718564 997 $aUNINA