Table of Contents

Introduction: Artistic Solutions to Sociological Problems 1
Aaron Baker

Part One The Pious Auteur 15

1 How Scorsese Became Scorsese: A Historiography of New Hollywood’s Most Prestigious Auteur 17
Marc Raymond

2 Smuggling Iconoclasm: European Cinema and Scorsese’s Male Antiheroes 38
Giorgio Bertellini and Jacqueline Reich

3 Italian Films, New York City Television, and the Work of Martin Scorsese 53
Laura E. Ruberto

4 The Imaginary Museum: Martin Scorsese’s Film History Documentaries 71
Robert P. Kolker

5 Images of Religion, Ritual, and the Sacred in Martin Scorsese’s Cinema 91
David Sterritt

Part Two Social Contexts and Conflicts 115

6 Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and Italianamerican: Gender, Ethnicity, and Imagination 117
Aaron Baker

7 Mobsters and Bluebloods: Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence in the Perspective of his Italian-American Films 133
Robert Casillo

8 Off-White Masculinity in Martin Scorsese’s Gangster Films 173
Larissa M. Ennis

9 Irish-American Identity in the Films of Martin Scorsese 195
Matt R. Lohr

10 Issues of Race, Ethnicity, and Television Authorship in Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues and Boardwalk Empire 214
Jonathan J. Cavallero

11 Cinema According to Marty: Scorsese as American Film Culture’s Intellectual 237
Marc Raymond

Part Three Form and the Filmmaking Process 249

12 Martin Scorsese and the Music Documentary 251
Michael Brendan Baker

13 Martin Scorsese Rocks 271
Giuliana Muscio

14 Music as Cultural Signifier of Italian-American Life in Who’s That Knocking at My Door and Mean Streets 289
Anthony D. Cavaluzzi

15 When Marty Met Bobby: Collaborative Authorship in Mean Streets and Taxi Driver 304
R. Colin Tait

16 Scorsese’s Landscape of Mortality 324
Murray Pomerance

17 Borderlines: Boundaries and Transgression in the City Films of Martin Scorsese 343
Brendan Kredell

Part Four Major Films 365

18 Mean Streets as Cinema of Independence 367
Stefan Sereda

19 Taxi Driver and Veteran Trauma 385
Michael D. High

20 Filming the Fights: Subjectivity and Sensation in Raging Bull 408
Leger Grindon

21 The Last Temptation of Christ: Queering the Divine 432
Daniel S. Cutrara

22 The Cinematic Seduction of Not a “Good Fella” 454
Bambi Haggins

23 Hugo and the (Re-)Invention of Martin Scorsese 471
Guerric DeBona

24 The Irishman: Cosmopolitan Authorship in the Age of Streaming Media 492
Aaron Baker

Index 506