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Ellis Cashmore - Martin Scorsese´s America - 9780745645223 - V9780745645223
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Martin Scorsese´s America

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Description for Martin Scorsese´s America Hardback. 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. Series: Polity America Through the Lens Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 147 x 28. Weight in Grams: 502.
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 ... Read more 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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Polity America Through the Lens Series
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745645223
SKU
V9780745645223
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About Ellis Cashmore
Ellis Cashmore is Professor of Culture, Media and Sport at Staffordshire University.

Reviews for Martin Scorsese´s America
"A valuable and accessible contribution to Scorsese studies. Published at the very moment in which Scorsese's relevance as a contemporary Hollywood filmmaker has understandably been questioned in some quarters, Cashmore's book repositions the director's films as culturally significant objects and thereby promises to broaden the parameters of future studies." Film-Philosophy "Martin Scorsese's America is ... Read more

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