Pt. 1. Authenticity, flourishing, and the good life -- No safe haven: Casino, friendship, and egoism / Steven M. Sanders -- God's lonely man: Taxi driver and the ethics of vigilantism / Aeon J. Skoble -- Goodfellas, Gyges, and the good life / Dean A. Kowalski -- Mean streets: beatitude, flourishing, and unhappiness / Mark T. Conard -- Part 2. Rationality, criminality, and the emotions -- The cinema of madness: Friedrich Nietzsche and the films of Martin Scorsese / Jerold J. Abrams -- The age of innocence: social semiotics, desire, and constraint/ Deborah Knight -- After hours: Scorsese on absurdity / Jennifer L. McMahon -- The pupkin gambit: rationality and irrationality in The king of comedy/ Richard Greene -- Part 3. Vision, salvation, and the transcendental -- The last temptation of Christ and bringing out the dead: Scorsese's reluctant saviors / Karen D. Hoffman -- Flying solo: the aviator and libertarian philosophy / Paul A. Cantor -- Art, sex, and time in Scorsese's After hours / Richard Gilmore -- The ethical underpinnings of Kundun / Judith Barad -- Scorsese and the transcendental / R. Barton Palmer -- The American gangster is dead: incarnate emptiness in Martin Scorsese's The departed / Aga Skrodzka-Bates.
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