Scorsese and Religion.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (335 pages)
- Studies in Religion and the Arts Series ; v.15 .
- Studies in Religion and the Arts Series .
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 Question -- Part 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.
Scorsese and Religion explores and analyzes the religious vision of filmmaker Martin Scorsese's oeuvre, showing that Scorsese cannot be properly understood without reflecting on the ways that his religious interests are expressed in and through his art.