Martin Scorsese: A Biography Book

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     xi
Turf, 1880-1959
My Voyage to Little Italy     3
Corona: Paradiso     11
Corona: Purgatorio     13
Little Italy: Inferno     21
In My Room     25
The Church     31
The Street     43
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1960-1971
The Home without Books     49
The Apprentice     57
The Big Kahuna: Who's That Knocking at My Door     71
The Sicilian Butcher     107
Break on through to the Other Side, 1972-1975
The Roger Corman Post-Graduate University of Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll B Movies: Boxcar Bertha     121
Neorealism American Style: Mean Streets     135
Hollywood! Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore     181
My Voyage through Hell: Taxi Driver     189
In Excess, 1976-1978
Disaster Movies: New York, New York     197
Redemption, 1979-1989
"I'm Not an Animal": Raging Bull     217
The Double: The King of Comedy     253
K: After Hours     265
Resurrection: The Color of Money     275
Passion Play: The Last Temptation of Christ     283
New York, New York: New York Stories     289
The Eternal Flame, 1990-1998
"We Make Street Movies": GoodFellas     297
The Old and the New: Cape Fear     307
Emotional Violence: The Age of Innocence     335
Trilogy: Casino     341
Zenned In: Kiundun     347
Out of Touch/Out of Time, 1999-2007
Five Marriages     355
Taxi Driver Lite: Bringing Out the Dead     365
New York Stories: Gangs of New York     369
My Voyage to Spielberg/Lucasland: The Aviator     373
Tribal Rites of the Irish: The Departed     383
Epilogue     387
Filmography as Director-Fictional Works     389
Filmography as Director-Nonfiction     391
Filmography as Actor     392
Filmography as Executive Producer and Producer     393
Filmography as Presenter     394
Interview with Martin Scorsese     395
Bibliography     405
Index     431