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Martin Scorsese : a biography
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Martin Scorsese : a biography

Author: Vincent LoBrutto
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Martin Scorsese
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Vincent LoBrutto
ISBN: 9780275987053 0275987051
OCLC Number: 156902358
Description: xiii, 444 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Turf, 1880-1959 -- 1. My voyage to little Italy -- 2. Corona : Paradiso -- 3. Corona : Purgatorio -- 4. Little Italy : Inferno -- 5. In my room -- 6. The church -- 7. The street -- pt. 2. A portrait of the artist as a young man, 1960-1971 -- 8. The home without books -- 9. The apprentice -- 10. The big Kahuna : Who's that knocking at my door -- 11. The Sicilian butcher -- pt. 3. Break on through to the other side, 1972-1975 -- 12. The Roger Corman post-graduate university of sex, drugs, and rock and roll B movies : Boxcar Bertha -- 13. Neorealism American style : Mean streets -- 14. Hollywood! Alice doesn't live here anymore -- 15. My voyage through hell : Taxi driver -- pt. 4. In excess, 1976-1978 -- 16. Disaster movies : New York, New York -- pt. 5. Redemption, 1979-1989 -- 17. "I'm not an animal" : Raging bull -- 18. The double : The king of comedy -- 19. K : After hours -- 20. Resurrection : The color of money -- 21. Passion play : The last temptation of Christ -- 22. New York, New York : New York stories -- pt. 6. The eternal flame, 1990-1998 -- 23. "We make street movies" : GoodFellas -- 24. The old and the new : Cape Fear -- 25. Emotional violence : The age of innocence -- 26. Trilogy : Casino -- 27. Zenned in : Kundun -- pt. 7. Out of touch/out of time, 1999-2007 -- 28. Five marriages -- 29. Taxi driver lite : Bringing out the dead -- 30. New York stories : Gangs of New York -- 31. My voyage to Spielberg/Lucasland : The aviator -- 32. Tribal rites of the Irish : The departed -- Epilogue -- Appendix A : Filmography as director : fictional works -- Appendix B : Filmography as director : nonfiction -- Appendix C : Filmography as actor -- Appendix D : Filmography as executive producer and producer -- Appendix E : Filmography as presenter -- Appendix F : Interview with Martin Scorsese -- Bibliography -- Index.
Responsibility: Vincent LoBrutto.

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