Scholars of religion explore the American film director Martin Scorsese and Catholicism, religious influences and themes in his cinema, and religion in a selection of individual films. Among their topics are the Catholic Scorsese-how a seminarian turned to the movies, the problems of violence in Scorsese's films: the Catholic gangster as tragic hero, The Last Temptation of Christ: Scorsese's Jesus among ordinary saints, The Wolf of Wall Street and economic nihilism, and the global afterlives of Silence. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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.
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| Introduction |
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PART 1 Scorsese and Catholicism |
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1 The Catholic Scorsese - or How a Seminarian Turned to the Movies |
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2 No Way Out: Martin Scorsese and the Ecclesial Imagination |
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PART 2 Religious Influences and Themes in Scorsese's Cinema |
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3 Dostoevskian Elements in Scorsese's Cinema |
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4 The Problem of Violence in Scorsese's Films: The Catholic Gangster as Tragic Hero |
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5 Violence and Redemption in Scorsese's Films: A Girardian Reading |
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6 Scorsese as a Critic of Modernity: The Woman Question |
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PART 3 Scorsese and Religion: A Selective Filmography |
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7 The Last Temptation of Christ Scorsese's Jesus among Ordinary Saints |
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8 Scorsese's Kundun as Catholic Encounter with the Dalai Lama and His Tibetan Dharma |
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9 Pity and Pardon in Scorsese's Palimpsest, Bringing Out the Dead |
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10 Martin Scorsese's Screening Room: Theatricality, Psychoanalysis, and Modernity in Shutter Island |
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11 Reinventing Human Experience: Hugo and the Theological Possibilities of Film |
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12 The Wolf of Wall Street and Economic Nihilism |
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13 The Global Afterlives of Silence |
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| Index of Bible References |
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Christopher B. Barnett, D.Phil. (Oxford, 2008), is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University, USA. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he has published three monographs, including Kierkegaard and the Question Concerning Technology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).
Clark J. Elliston, D.Phil. (Oxford, 2012) is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Schreiner University, USA. Interested in the intersection of Christian theology, culture, and technology, he is the author of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Ethical Self (Fortress, 2016).
Contributors are: Christopher B. Barnett, Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch, Guerric DeBona, Mark Dennis, Clark J. Elliston, M. Gail Hamner, D. Stephen Long, Gerard Loughlin, John McAteer, Darren J.N. Middleton, Stephen Mulhall, Cari Myers, Marc Raymond, Kerry San Chirico
