Scorsese and Religion

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41137-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Studies in Religion and the Arts

Scorsese and Religion concerns the religious vision of the great American filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Not only will this volume explore the foundation of Scorsese’s interest in religion—namely, his relation to the Catholic Church—but it will also highlight the religious breadth of Scorsese’s corpus. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that Scorsese’s cinematic “re-presentation” of reality brings together various religious influences (Catholicism, existentialism, Buddhism, etc.) and topics such as violence, morality, nihilism, and so on. The overarching claim is that Scorsese, who indeed once claimed that his “whole life” had been “movies and religion,” cannot be properly understood without reflecting on the ways in which his religious interests are expressed in and through his art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnett, Christopher B

Elliston, Clark J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston

Part 1: Scorsese and Catholicism

1 The Catholic Scorsese – or How a Seminarian Turned to the Movies

Marc Raymond

2 No Way Out: Martin Scorsese and the Ecclesial Imagination

Guerric DeBona,osb

Part 2: Religious Influences and Themes in Scorsese’s Cinema

3 Dostoevskian Elements in Scorsese’s Cinema

Christopher B. Barnett

4 The Problem of Violence in Scorsese’s Films: The Catholic Gangster as Tragic Hero

John McAteer

5 Violence and Redemption in Scorsese’s Films: A Girardian Reading

Cari Myers

6 Scorsese as a Critic of Modernity: The Woman Question

M. Gail Hamner

Part 3: Scorsese and Religion: A Selective Filmography

7 The Last Temptation of Christ: Scorsese’s Jesus among Ordinary Saints

Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch

8 Scorsese’s Kundun as Catholic Encounter with the Dalai Lama and His Tibetan Dharma

Kerry P.C. San Chirico

9 Pity and Pardon in Scorsese’s Palimpsest, Bringing Out the Dead

Gerard Loughlin

10 Martin Scorsese’s Screening Room: Theatricality, Psychoanalysis, and Modernity in Shutter Island

Stephen Mulhall

11 Reinventing Human Experience: Hugo and the Theological Possibilities of Film

Clark J. Elliston

12 The Wolf of Wall Street and Economic Nihilism

D. Stephen Long

13 The Global Afterlives of Silence

Darren J.N. Middleton and Mark W. Dennis

Index of Bible References

Index of Names and Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher B. Barnett, D.Phil. (Oxford, 2008), is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University, USA. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he has published three monographs, including Kierkegaard and the Question Concerning Technology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).

Clark J. Elliston, D.Phil. (Oxford, 2012) is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Schreiner University, USA. Interested in the intersection of Christian theology, culture, and technology, he is the author of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Ethical Self (Fortress, 2016).

Contributors are: Christopher B. Barnett, Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch, Guerric DeBona, Mark Dennis, Clark J. Elliston, M. Gail Hamner, D. Stephen Long, Gerard Loughlin, John McAteer, Darren J.N. Middleton, Stephen Mulhall, Cari Myers, Marc Raymond, Kerry San Chirico