The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese

by Conard, Mark T.

• ISBN13: 9780813124445
• ISBN10: 0813124441
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-31
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

Summary

In The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese, an impressive cast of contributors explores the complex themes and philosophical underpinnings of Martin Scorsese's films.

Table of Contents

Authenticity, flourishing, and the good life
No safe haven : Casino, friendship, and egoism	p. 7
Gods lonely man : Taxi driver and the ethics of vigilantism	p. 23
Goodfellas, Gyges, and the good life	p. 31
Mean streets : beatitude, flourishing, and unhappiness	p. 53
Rationality, criminality, and the emotions
The cinema of madness : Friedrich Nietzsche and the films of Martin Scorsese	p. 75
The age of innocence : social semiotics, desire, and constraint	p. 93
After hours : Scorsese on absurdity	p. 109
The pupkin gambit : rationality and irrationality in The king of comedy	p. 129
Vision, salvation, and the transcendental
The last temptation of Christ and Bringing out the dead : Scorsese's reluctant saviors	p. 141
Flying solo : The aviator and libertarian philosophy	p. 165
Art, sex, and time in Scorsese's After hours	p. 189
The ethical underpinnings of Kundun	p. 211
Scorsese and the transcendental	p. 231
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