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Martin Scorsese's Documentary Histories: Migrations, Movies, Music
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Martin Scorsese's Documentary Histories: Migrations, Movies, Music
Current price: $130.00
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Martin Scorsese's Documentary Histories: Migrations, Movies, Music
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is the first comprehensive study of Martin Scorsese's prolific work as a documentary filmmaker. Highlighting the historiographic aims of the director's various non-fiction film, video, and television productions, Mike Meneghetti re-examines Scorsese's documentaries as resourceful audiovisual histories of migrations, movies, and popular music.
's critical immersion in the post-Sixties ethnic revival inaugurates Scorsese's decades-long documentary project in 1974, and the era's developing vernacular of reclamation would shape each of his subsequent non-fiction efforts.
surveys the succeeding films' decisive adherence to this language of retrieval. With extended analyses of
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among others, Meneghetti resituates Scorsese's filmmaking within the wider contexts of documentary history and American culture