Scorsese and religion
Front Matter -- Copyright Page /Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston -- Dedication /Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston -- Acknowledgements /Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston -- Illustrations /Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston -- Notes on Contributors /Christop...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2019]
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies in religion and the arts
volume 15 Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390898 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Scorsese, Martin 1942-
/ Film
/ Religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Motion picture producers and directors |
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| Summary: | Front Matter -- Copyright Page /Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston -- Dedication /Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston -- Acknowledgements /Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston -- Illustrations /Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston -- Notes on Contributors /Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston -- Introduction /Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston -- Scorsese and Catholicism /Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston -- The Catholic Scorsese – or How a Seminarian Turned to the Movies /Marc Raymond -- No Way Out: Martin Scorsese and the Ecclesial Imagination /Guerric DeBona -- Religious Influences and Themes in Scorsese’s Cinema /Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston -- Dostoevskian Elements in Scorsese’s Cinema /Christopher B. Barnett -- The Problem of Violence in Scorsese’s Films: The Catholic Gangster as Tragic Hero /John McAteer -- Violence and Redemption in Scorsese’s Films: A Girardian Reading /Cari Myers -- Scorsese as a Critic of Modernity: The Woman Question /M. Gail Hamner -- Scorsese and Religion: A Selective Filmography /Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston -- The Last Temptation of Christ: Scorsese’s Jesus among Ordinary Saints /Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch -- Scorsese’s Kundun as Catholic Encounter with the Dalai Lama and His Tibetan Dharma1 /Kerry P.C. San Chirico -- Pity and Pardon in Scorsese’s Palimpsest, Bringing Out the Dead /Gerard Loughlin -- Martin Scorsese’s Screening Room: Theatricality, Psychoanalysis, and Modernity in Shutter Island /Stephen Mulhall -- Reinventing Human Experience: Hugo and the Theological Possibilities of Film /Clark J. Elliston -- The Wolf of Wall Street and Economic Nihilism /D. Stephen Long -- The Global Afterlives of Silence /Darren J.N. Middleton and Mark W. Dennis -- Back Matter -- null /Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston. 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 |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben |
| ISBN: | 9004411402 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004411401 |