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
| ISBN: | 9781444338614 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Baker Aaron |
| Verlag: | Wiley |
| Veröffentlicht: | 17.10.2014 |
| Schlagworte: | American Film Amerikanische Filmkunst Cultural Studies Film Geschichte des Filmtheaters History of Cinema Kulturwissenschaften Scorsese, Martin |
Aaron Baker is Associate Professor and Area Chair of Film and Media Studies within the English Department at Arizona State University. His research focuses on sports culture, film authorship, and the representation of race, ethnicity, and gender in American cinema. He is co-editor of Out of Bounds: Sports, Media and the Politics of Identity (1997), and the author of Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film (2003) and Steven Soderbergh (2011).