Title: Scorsese's men : melancholia and the mob /
Authors: Nicholls, Mark.
Publisher: Pluto Press Australia,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Scorsese, Martin Criticism and interpretation.; Men in motion pictures.; Sex role in motion pictures.; Machismo in motion pictures.; Masculinity in motion pictures.
Abstract: "Join author Mark Nicholls as he traces Martin Scorsese's central theme of melancholia, nostalgia and loss through five films from the legendary director." "The readings of these influential moments in film history provide reflection upon Scorsese's heroes and the tribal groups they are associated with - 19th century New York Society, the Italian American Mob, the Yuppified New South - and how when ultimately validated by conforming to the will of the mob this melancholic man, for all his perversions, becomes a universally adored and culturally empowered Superman of loss."--Jacket.
Contents: The uses of melancholia: better to have lost and loved than to never to have lost at all -- The age of innocence: a mean and melancholy history -- Raging Bull: 'kiss the boo boo" -- Taxi driver: the melancholic as flâneur -- Goodfellas: among the Italians -- Cape fear: the white trash angst -- The melancholic momentum.