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Summary

A Companion to Martin Scorsese is a comprehensive collection of original essays assessing the career of one of America's most prominent contemporary filmmakers.

  • Contains contributions from prominent scholars in North America and Europe that use a variety of analytic approaches
  • Offers fresh interpretations of some of Scorsese's most influential films, including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, and Hugo
  • Considers Scorsese's place within the history of American and world cinema; his work in relation to auteur theory; the use of popular music and various themes such as violence, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender, and race in his films, and more
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Some decent insights and trivia, especially regarding Robert DeNiro's collaborations with the director, but it's fairly long in the tooth, and too many of the essays are just typical analyses of Scorsese's work through the lens of identity politics. There's an interesting picture of a decades long career here, but not enough focus on his actual filmmaking to make it worth the hours.

Academic but not totally dry

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As a lover of all Scorsese movies this is a brilliant (and free!) insight into the greatest living director.

Brilliant insight into Scorsese

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