Scorsese and religion

Scorsese and Religion concerns the religious vision of the great American filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Not only will this volume explore the foundation of Scorsese's interest in religion--namely, his relation to the Catholic Church--but it will also highlight the religious breadth of Scorsese...

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Other Authors: Barnett, Christopher B. (Editor), Elliston, Clark J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill [2019], 2019
Series:Studies in religion and the arts
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505 0 |a Intro; Scorsese and Religion; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part 1: Scorsese and Catholicism; 1 The Catholic Scorsese -- or How a Seminarian Turned to the Movies; 2 No Way Out: Martin Scorsese and the Ecclesial Imagination; Part 2: Religious Influences and Themes in Scorsese's Cinema; 3 Dostoevskian Elements in Scorsese's Cinema; 4 The Problem of Violence in Scorsese's Films: The Catholic Gangster as Tragic Hero; 5 Violence and Redemption in Scorsese's Films: A Girardian Reading 
505 0 |a 6 Scorsese as a Critic of Modernity: The Woman QuestionPart 3: Scorsese and Religion: A Selective Filmography; 7 The Last Temptation of Christ: Scorsese's Jesus among Ordinary Saints; 8 Scorsese's Kundun as Catholic Encounter with the Dalai Lama and His Tibetan Dharma; 9 Pity and Pardon in Scorsese's Palimpsest, Bringing Out the Dead; 10 Martin Scorsese's Screening Room: Theatricality, Psychoanalysis, and Modernity in Shutter Island; 11 Reinventing Human Experience: Hugo and the Theological Possibilities of Film; 12 The Wolf of Wall Street and Economic Nihilism 
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505 0 |a 13 The Global Afterlives of Silence; Index of Bible References; Index of Names and Subjects 
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520 |a Scorsese and Religion concerns the religious vision of the great American filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Not only will this volume explore the foundation of Scorsese's interest in religion--namely, his relation to the Catholic Church--but it will also highlight the religious breadth of Scorsese's corpus. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that Scorsese's cinematic "re-presentation" of reality brings together various religious influences (Catholicism, existentialism, Buddhism, etc.) and topics such as violence, morality, nihilism, and so on. The overarching claim is that Scorsese, who indeed once claimed that his "whole life" had been "movies and religion," cannot be properly understood without reflecting on the ways in which his religious interests are expressed in and through his art