Contributors viiiIntroduction: Artistic Solutions to Sociological Problems 1Aaron BakerPart One The Pious Auteur 151 How Scorsese Became Scorsese: A Historiography of New Hollywood's Most Prestigious Auteur 17Marc Raymond2 Smuggling Iconoclasm: European Cinema and Scorsese's Male Antiheroes 38Giorgio Bertellini and Jacqueline Reich3 Italian Films, New York City Television, and the Work of Martin Scorsese 53Laura E. Ruberto4 The Imaginary Museum: Martin Scorsese's Film History Documentaries 71Robert P. Kolker5 Images of Religion, Ritual, and the Sacred in Martin Scorsese's Cinema 91David SterrittPart Two Social Contexts and Conflicts 1156 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Italianamerican: Gender, Ethnicity, and Imagination 117Aaron Baker7 Mobsters and Bluebloods: Scorsese's The Age of Innocence in the Perspective of his Italian American Films 133Robert Casillo8 Off -White Masculinity in Martin Scorsese's Gangster Films 173Larissa M. Ennis9 Irish-American Identity in the Films of Martin Scorsese 195Matt R. Lohr10 Issues of Race, Ethnicity, and Television Authorship in Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues and Boardwalk Empire 214Jonathan J. CavalleroPart Three Form and the Filmmaking Process 23711 Martin Scorsese and the Music Documentary 239Michael Brendan Baker12 Martin Scorsese Rocks 259Giuliana Muscio13 Music as Cultural Signifier of Italian/American Life in Who's That Knocking at My Door and Mean Streets 277Anthony D. Cavaluzzi14 When Marty Met Bobby: Collaborative Authorship in Mean Streets and Taxi Driver 292R. Colin Tait15 Scorsese's Landscape of Mortality 312Murray Pomerance16 Borderlines: Boundaries and Transgression in the City Films of Martin Scorsese 331Brendan KredellPart Four Major Films 35317 Mean Streets as Cinema of Independence 355Stefan Sereda18 Taxi Driver and Veteran Trauma 373Michael D. High19 Filming the Fights: Subjectivity and Sensation in Raging Bull 396Leger Grindon20 The Last Temptation of Christ: Queering the Divine 420Daniel S. Cutrara21 The Cinematic Seduction of Not a "Good Fella" 442Bambi Haggins22 Hugo and the (Re-)Invention of Martin Scorsese 459Guerric DeBonaIndex 480
Aaron Baker is Professor of Film and Media Studies within the English Department at Arizona State University, USA. His research focuses on sports culture, film authorship, and the representation of race, ethnicity, and gender in American cinema. He is coeditor of Out of Bounds: Sports, Media and the Politics of Identity (1997), and the author of Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film (2003), Steven Soderbergh (2011), and The Baseball Film: A Transmedia and Cultural History (2022).