A detailed, theoretically attuned analysis of all of the Scorsese-directed features from The Last Waltz to Bringing Out the Dead . Grist illuminates Scorsese's authorship, but also reflects back upon a range of informing contexts.Acknowledgements Evolving Authorship, Developing Contexts: 'Life Lessons' Scorsese and Documentary: The Last Waltz Masculinity, Violence, Resistance: Raging Bull Back to Travis#1: The King of Comedy Adventures in Reagan and Bush Snr's USA: The Color of Money and GoodFellas Yuppies in Peril: After Hours and Cape Fear Religion, Blasphemy, and the Hollywood Institution: The Last Temptation of Christ Style, Narrative, Adaptation: The Age of Innocence Power and the Look: Casino Cinema of Transcendence, Cinema as Transcendence: Kundun Back to Travis#2: Bringing Out the Dead Conclusion: 'Of course, there's less time...' Notes BibliographyLEIGHTON GRIST is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Winchester, UK. He has published extensively on film, including work on classical and post-classical Hollywood, film theory, and genre. He is the author of The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1963-77: Authorship and Context, to which this book is a sequel.
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