Neglected Scorsese - Phillip Sipiora

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Auteur(s) : Phillip Sipiora - Gary D Rhodes

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/10/2025

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 240

Dimensions : 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5

ISBN : 9798765128138

Résumé :

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Author biographies

Introduction
Gary D. Rhodes (Oklahoma Baptist University, USA) and Phillip Sipiora (University of South Florida, USA)

1. It's Not Just You, Murray!: Martin Scorsese and Schnook Cinema
Robert Singer (CUNY Graduate Center, USA) and Gary D. Rhodes (Oklahoma Baptist University, USA)

2. After Hours, After Modernity
Phillip Sipiora (University of South Florida, USA)

3. Monstrative Force and Short-Form Grand-Guignol in Amazing Stories' Mirror Mirror
Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare (John Abbott College, Canada)

4. Marty Two Bad: Scorsese and the Music Video
William Thomas McBride (Illinois State University, USA)

5. Martin Scorsese's Life Lessons and its Myriad Muses
Frank Percaccio (Kingsborough College, CUNY, USA)

6. Martin Scorsese, Music, and Kundun (1997)
Michael Lee (University of Oklahoma, USA)

7. The Razor's Edge: Martin Scorsese and Bringing Out the Dead
Gary D. Rhodes (Oklahoma Baptist University, USA) and Courtney Ruffner Grieneisen (State College of Florida, USA)

8. My Voyage to Italy: Martin Scorsese, Neorealism, and the Rebirth of Italy
John Paul Russo (University of Miami, USA)

9. The Ubiquity of the Unseen: Absence and Unrest in The Aviator
Michael L. Shuman (University of South Florida, USA)

10. Thirty-Second Cinema: Scorsese, Film Aesthetics, and Marketing Strategies
Robert Singer (CUNY Graduate Center, USA)

11. Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson as the Anti-Hero in Boardwalk Empire
Alan J. Gravano (Rocky Mountain University, USA)

12. To live as a monster or die as a good man: Shutter Island and Uncanny Cold War Para-
noir-a
Marlisa Santos (Nova Southeastern University, USA)

13. A Meditation on Purpose: Hugo
Cynthia J. Miller (Emerson College, USA)

14. Faith and Conflict: Martin Scorsese's Silence
Raymond M. Vince (University of South Florida, the University of Tampa, Hillsborough Community College, USA)

Index

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Biographie:

Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida, USA. He is the author or editor of five books, including Ida Lupino, Filmmaker (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021). He has published on filmmakers such as Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, Joseph H. Lewis, Wallace Fox, Ida Lupino, Robert Weine, and Norman Mailer.

Gary D. Rhodes is Full Professor of Film and Media at Oklahoma Baptist University, USA. He is the author of numerous books, including Vampires in Silent Cinema (2023), Consuming Images: Film Art and the American Television Commercial (2020), co-authored with Robert Singer, The Birth of the American Horror Film (2018), and The Perils of Moviegoing in America (Bloomsbury, 2012). Rhodes is a founding editor of Horror Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. He is also the writer- director of such documentary films as Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997) and Banned in Oklahoma (2004).

Sommaire:
This collection examines over a dozen of Martin Scorsese's most overlooked works, including the television shows, music videos, television commercials, and feature films that have been largely ignored by film critics and/or the moviegoing public. From After Hours (1985) and New York Stories (1989) to Il Mio Viaggio(1999), The Age of Innocence(1993), and The Aviator (2004), Neglected Scorsese reclaims the director's less-appreciated works, giving them the respect and attention they deserve. Scorsese is one of the finest directors in film history. Of all New Hollywood directors, he remains the most active, the most indispensable, the most new, not only changing with the times, but changing the times through the magnitude of his work. Without Scorsese's gangster films, the global gangster genre would not be the same, nor anywhere near as accomplished and without his filmography, the entirety of American cinema would be greatly diminished. The purpose of this book is not about bringing more attention to Scorsese the director or to his most notable films. Rather, it argues that Scorsese's lengthy career has produced individual works that have been neglected, even while others have been lauded. 'Neglected' in this collection is defined as those Scorsese films that were underappreciated by mainstream critics, by mainstream audiences, by scholars, or by any combination of the three. Further, the book's focus goes beyond feature films, as Scorsese has directed shorts, music videos, television programs, and TV commercials. There is intrinsic value in these film forms, just as there is value in the analysis of those Scorsese directed....