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04268aam a2200469 i 4500 001 7F3C534E8FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220217010136 008 201103t20212021njua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2020041767 020 $a 1978817428 020 $a 9781978817425 020 $a 197881741X 020 $a 9781978817418 035 $a (OCoLC)1196198595 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN1998.3.S39 $b C85 2021 082 00 $a 791.4302/33092 $2 23 100 1 $a Cullen, Jim, $d 1962- $e author. 245 10 $a Martin Scorsese and the American dream / $c Jim Cullen. 264 1 $a New Brunswick : $b Rutgers University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xvi, 159 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "This book explores the intersection of two topics and their impact on American culture. One is an idea: the American Dream, one of the most resonant -and controversial -themes of U.S. History. The other is a person: Martin Scorsese, a man widely regarded as the greatest living American director. The American Dream is something that a great many American artists have chosen (or perhaps have felt forced) to engage, and the highly articulate Scorsese has referred to it many times over the course of his life. But neither he or the many scholars who have explored his work have traced the Dream in anything like a systematic way. It has certainly been a means for him to understand his own life-he is, as much as any American who has ever lived, is a poster child for upward mobility-but it also functions as a lens through which he has filtered a variety of characters and situations over the course of his large body of work. One reason why Scorsese's engagement with the Dream, however implicit, merits a book-length study is the complexity of his understanding of it. He's no mere cheerleader; as he told one critic, "The American Dream, if you dream it intensely enough, will make you nuts." This is something he experienced first-hand during a dark period in his life during the late 1970s. But he understands its appeal for the gangster and the priest, the hustler and the housewife. In Scorsese's art, the American Dream is animated by a potent friction between two competing forces: provincialism and cosmopolitanism. Scorsese is the product of a small, insular world, and he has spent life recreating them in one form or another. And yet his artistry rests on talents that were quickly recognized by a wider world, and has spent most of his life working with a global set of collaborators-actors, writers, set designers, location managers and the like-who have cast their lot with him in the process of producing some of the most significant cinematic art of last half-century. Literally and figuratively, Scorsese sees the American Dream in uniquely powerful ways. And he allows us to see the Dream that way, too. Fast-paced, instructive, and resonant, Martin Scorsese and the American Dream illuminates an important dimension of our national life and how a great artist has brought it into focus"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: the provincial cosmopolitan -- The Elizabethan era -- Redeeming dreams -- Impressive failures -- Dream critiques -- Recurring dreams -- Conclusion: dream of life. 600 10 $a Scorsese, Martin $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Scorsese, Martin. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00072245 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a Motion pictures $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $x History $z United States $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a American Dream in art. 650 7 $a American Dream in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01902350 650 7 $a Motion pictures $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027384 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031611.0 952 $l NYPE343 $d 20220506010700.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7F3C534E8FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search