A Personal Journey Through American Movies - Softcover

Martin Scorsese

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571194559 ISBN 13: 9780571194551

Publisher: Faber Paperbacks, 1998

Synopsis

This account of American films is balanced between subjective enthusiasm and objective analysis. Scorsese starts from his own childhood love affair with the cinema, when he discovered King Vidor's "Dual in the Sun" as a boy. The book is not an orthodox film history, but rather a genuinely personal voyage of discovery. Scorsese recalls from his youth the kind of films that had a strong influence on him: not only the prestige titles from major directors and studios, but also the unsung B-films, as well as other despised and undervalued genres. What Scorsese responds to, and celebrates, is cinema itself - the films that make the fullest use of the medium's potential, and the film-makers who worked within the system, yet still retained a personal vision.

About this title

About the Author

Born in Queens, New York, in 1942, Martin Scorsese seriously contemplated the priesthood but finally embraced cinema and, following Mean Streets (1973) emerged as the pre-eminent American director of his generation. Taxi Driver won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1976; Raging Bull (1980) is considered the greatest American film of its decade. His more recent works include GoodFellas (1990), Casino (1995), Bringing Out the Dead (1999) and Gangs of New York (2002).

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0571194559
• ISBN 13: 9780571194551
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192