The philosophy of Martin Scorsese / edited by Mark T. Conard.

Other author Conard, Mark T., 1965-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLexington : University Press of Kentucky,
Descriptionvi, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesThe philosophy of popular culture
Contents Authenticity, flourishing, and the good life. No safe haven : Casino, friendship, and egoism / Steven M. Sanders ; God's lonely man : Taxi dirver 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. Conrad -- 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 constratint / Deborah Knight ; After hours : Scorsese on absurdity / Jennifer L. McMahon ; The pupkin gambit : rationality and irrationality in The king of comedy / Richard Greene -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2007003156
ISBN9780813124445 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0813124441 (hardcover : alk. paper)