The philosophy of Martin Scorsese
By: edited by Mark T. Conrad.
Contributors: Conard, Mark T., 1965-
Edition: Updated ed.
Series: Philosophy of popular culture
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813192185
Subjects: Scorsese, Martin -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Authenticity, flourishing, and the good life; title: No safe haven: Casino, friendship, and egoism / Steven M. Sanders; title: God's lonely man: Taxi driver and the ethics of vigilantism / Aeon J. Skoble; title: Goodfellas, Gyges, and the good life / Dean A. Kowalski; title: Mean streets: beatitude, flourishing, and unhappiness / Mark T. Conard; title: Part 2. Rationality, criminality, and the emotions; title: The cinema of madness: Friedrich Nietzsche and the films of Martin Scorsese / Jerold J. Abrams; title: The age of innocence: social semiotics, desire, and constraint/ Deborah Knight; title: After hours: Scorsese on absurdity / Jennifer L. McMahon; title: The pupkin gambit: rationality and irrationality in The king of comedy/ Richard Greene; title: Part 3. Vision, salvation, and the transcendental; title: The last temptation of Christ and bringing out the dead: Scorsese's reluctant saviors / Karen D. Hoffman; title: Flying solo: the aviator and libertarian philosophy / Paul A. Cantor; title: Art, sex, and time in Scorsese's After hours / Richard Gilmore; title: The ethical underpinnings of Kundun / Judith Barad; title: Scorsese and the transcendental / R. Barton Palmer; title: The American gangster is dead: incarnate emptiness in Martin Scorsese's The departed / Aga Skrodzka-Bates.