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Title Scorsese and religion / edited by Christopher B. Barnett, Clark J. Elliston.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in religion and the arts ; volume 15
Studies in religion and the arts ; v. 15.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents 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
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
13 The Global Afterlives of Silence; Index of Bible References; Index of Names and Subjects.
Summary 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
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Scorsese, Martin -- Religion.
Scorsese, Martin.
Religion.
Scorsese, Martin -- Criticism and interpretation.
Criticism and interpretation.
Religion in motion pictures.
Religion in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Motion pictures -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Barnett, Christopher B. (Christopher Baldwin), 1976- editor.
Elliston, Clark J. (Clark James), 1980- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Scorsese and religion. Leiden : Brill, [2019] 9789004411371 (DLC) 2019301949 (OCoLC)1104063340
ISBN 9004411402 (electronic book)
9789004411401 (electronic book)
9004411372
9789004411371 (hardback ; acid-free paper)