A companion to Martin Scorsese / / edited by Aaron Baker ; contributors, Michael Brendan Baker [and twenty-two others]

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (499 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.4302/33092
• Persona (resp. second.): BakerAaron; BakerMichael Brendan
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: artistic solutions to sociological problems / by Aaron Baker -- The pious auteur. How Scorsese became Scorsese: a historiography of new Hollywood's most prestigious auteur / Marc Raymond -- Smuggling iconoclasm: European cinema and Scorsese's male anti-heroes / Giorgio Bertellini and Jaqueline Reich -- Italian films, New York City television, and the work of Martin Scorsese / Laura Ruberto -- The imaginary museum: Martin Scorsese's film history documentaries / Robert P. Kolker -- Images of religion, ritual, and the sacred in Martin Scorsese's cinema / David Sterritt -- Social contexts and conflicts. Alice doesn't live here anymore and Italianamerican: gender, ethnicity and imagination / Aaron Baker -- Mobsters and bluebloods: Scorsese's the age of innocence in the perspective of his Italian American films / Robert Casillo -- Off-white masculinity in Martin Scorsese's gangster films / Larissa M. Ennis -- Irish American identity in the films of Martin Scorsese / Matt Lohr -- Issues of race and ethnicity in Martin Scorsese presents The blues and Boardwalk empire / Jon Cavallero -- Form and the filmmaking process. Martin Scorsese & the music documentary / Michael Brendan Baker -- Martin Scorsese rocks / Giuliana Muscio -- Music as cultural signifier of Italian/American life in Who's that knocking at my door and Mean streets / Anthony Cavaluzzi -- When Marty met Bobby: collaborative authorship in Mean streets and Taxi driver / R. Colin Tait -- Scorsese's landscape of mortality / Murray Pomerance -- Border lines: boundaries and transgression in the city films of Martin Scorsese / Brendan Krede -- Major films. Mean streets as cinema of independence / Stefan Sereda -- Taxi driver and Veteran trauma / Michael D. High -- Filming the fights: subjectivity and sensation in Raging bull (1980) / Leger Grindon -- The last temptation of Christ: queering the divine / Dan Cutrara -- The cinematic seduction of not a Good fella / Bambi Haggins -- Hugo and the (re-) invention of Martin Scorsese / Guerric Debona.
• Sommario/riassunto: <i>A Companion to Martin Scorsese</i> is a comprehensive collection of original essays assessing the career of one of America's most prominent contemporary filmmakers. <ul> <li>Contains contributions from prominent scholars in North America and Europe that use a variety of analytic approaches</li> <li>Offers fresh interpretations of some of Scorsese's most influential films, including <i>Mean Streets</i>, <i>Taxi Driver</i>, <i>Raging Bull</i>, <i>Goodfellas</i>, <i>Gangs of New York</i>, and <i>Hugo</i></li> <li>Considers Scorsese's place within the history of American and world cinema; his
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to Martin Scorsese
• ISBN: 1-119-68562-1; 1-118-58554-2; 1-118-58534-8; 1-118-58836-3; 1-118-58569-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910643435503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors.