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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Barnett, Christopher B. (Christopher Baldwin), 1976- (Editor), Elliston, Clark J. (Clark James), 1980- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Series:Studies in religion and the arts ; v. 15.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.