Scorsese's Men

"Join author Mark Nicholls as he traces Martin Scorsese's central theme of melancholia, nostalgia and loss through five films from the legendary director." "The readings of these influential moments in film history provide reflection upon Scorsese's heroes and the tribal groups they are associated with - 19th century New York Society, the Italian American Mob, the Yuppified New South - and how when ultimately validated by conforming to the will of the mob this melancholic man, for all his perversions, becomes a universally adored and culturally empowered Superman of loss."--BOOK JACKET.

Mark Nicholls is Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne, where he teaches the cinema of Martin Scorsese. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Introduction Acute melancholia

xi

The uses of melancholia: better to have lost and loved than never to have lost at all

1

(14)

The Age of Innocence: a mean and melancholy history

15

(31)

Raging Bull: `Kiss the Boo Boo'

46

(29)

Taxi Driver: the melancholic as flaneur

75

(24)

GoodFellas: among the Italians

99

(27)

Cape Fear: the white trash angst

126

(21)

The melancholic momentum

147

(16)

Notes

163

(13)

Bibliography

176

(10)

Filmography

186

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