Baker, Aaron
A Companion to Martin Scorsese
A Companion to Martin Scorsese is a comprehensive collection of original essays assessing the career of one of America’s most prominent contemporary filmmakers.
- Contains contributions from prominent scholars in North America and Europe that use a variety of analytic approaches
- Offers fresh interpretations of some of Scorsese’s most influential films, including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, and Hugo
- Considers Scorsese's place within the history of American and world cinema; his work in relation to auteur theory; the use of popular music and various themes such as violence, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender, and race in his films, and more
Keywords: American film, Age of Innocence, Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Departed, Hugo, Taxi Driver, Gangs of New York, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Robert DeNiro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Aviator, Casino, Italian-American Film, Martin Scorsese, New Hollywood Directors, film authorship, American Film, History of Cinema, Film Studies, American Film, History of Cinema, Film Studies
- Author(s)
- Baker, Aaron
- Editor
- Baker, Aaron
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
- Page amount
- 512 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118588369
- Printed ISBN
- 9781444338614