Evolving Authorship, Developing Contexts: ‘Life Lessons’

Abstract

This book is a follow-up to The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1963–77: Authorship and Context. Covering all of the Scorsese-directed feature films released between 1978 and 1999, and making supplementary reference to Scorsese’s other work, it centres, like its predecessor, on a series of theoretically attuned textual analyses. Once more, these analyses are articulated in relation not only to Scorsese’s authorship, but to a range of informing contexts — industrial, institutional, generic, historical and/or cultural — that reflect back upon, and differently inflect, both Scorsese’s authorship and, implicitly, the issue and potentiality of film authorship in general. Hence, again, the book’s subtitle: authorship and context.