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For over four decades, Martin Scorsese has been the chronicler of an obsessive society, where material possessions and physical comfort are valued, where the pursuit of individual improvement is rewarded and where male prerogative is respected and preserved.
Scorsese has often described his films as sociology and he has a point: his storytelling condenses complex information into comprehensible narratives about society. In this sense, he has been a guide through a dark world of nineteenth century crypto-fascism to a fetishistic twentieth century in which goods, fame, money and power are held to have magical power.
Author of Tyson: Nurture of the Beast and Beckham, Ellis Cashmore turns his attention to arguably the most influential living film- maker to explore how Scorsese envisions America. Greed, manhood, the city and romantic love feature on Scorsese's landscape of secular materialism. They are among the themes Cashmore argues have driven and inform Scorsese's work. This is America, as seen through the eyes of Martin Scorsese and it is a deeply unpleasant place.
Cashmore's book discloses how, collectively, Scorsese's films present an image of America. It's an image assembled from the perspectives of obsessive people, whether burned-out paramedics, compulsive entrepreneurs, tortured lovers, or celebrity-fixated comedians. It's collected from pool halls, taxicabs, boxing rings and jazz clubs. It's an image that's specific, yet ubiquitous. It is Martin Scorsese's America.
Detalles
- Título Martin Scorsese's America
- Autor Ellis Cashmore
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Número de edición 1st
- Edición 1
- Páginas 200
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Polity Press
- Fecha de publicación 2009-11-09
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9780745645223 / 0745645224
- Peso 1.1 libras (0.50 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.1 pulgadas (21.08 x 14.73 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States - In motion pictures, Scorsese, Martin - Criticism and
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2009282554
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.430
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