A Companion to Martin Scorsese is a comprehensivecollection of original essays assessing the career of one ofAmerica’s most prominent contemporary filmmakers. Contains contributions from prominent scholars in North Americaand Europe that use a variety of analytic approaches Offers fresh interpretations of some of Scorsese’s mostinfluential films, including Mean Streets, TaxiDriver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Gangs of NewYork, and Hugo Considers Scorsese's place within the history of American andworld cinema; his work in relation to auteur theory; the use ofpopular music and various themes such as violence, ethnicity,religion, sexuality, gender, and race in his films, and more