Six Books About Scorsese

[...] the ubiquitous theory that Scorsese's visual aesthetics and world view were installed in his psyche by a handful of factors in his early years - the sickly childhood in Little Italy; the hours spent viewing movies with his father and watching neighborhood mobsters from his window; the fas...

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Published in:	Film Quarterly 2009, Vol.63 (2), p.73-77
Main Author:	Sterritt, David
Format:	Review
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Ebert, Roger Greek literature Kazantzakis, Nikos (1883-1957) Lindlof, Thomas R Motion picture criticism Motion picture directors & producers Motion pictures Nonfiction Prose Scorsese, Martin
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Summary:	[...] the ubiquitous theory that Scorsese's visual aesthetics and world view were installed in his psyche by a handful of factors in his early years - the sickly childhood in Little Italy; the hours spent viewing movies with his father and watching neighborhood mobsters from his window; the fascination with sin, salvation, and ritual that made him consider becoming a Roman Catholic priest. [...] the biggest problem is the prose, replete with misspelled words (felatio, au currant), misspelled names (Zanadu, Robert DeNiro, Katherine Hepburn), redundancies ("Scorsese's gangster trilogy is an epic triad"), and locutions like "one of the highest divorce rates in American human history" (356)- as opposed to American space-alien history, I suppose.
ISSN:	0015-1386 1533-8630