Martin Scorsese's divine comedy : : movies and religion / / Catherine O'Brien.

"Catherine O'Brien draws on the structure of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy to explore Martin Scorsese's feature films from Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967-69) to Silence (2016). This is the first full-length study to focus on the trajectory of faith and doubt during t...

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Place / Publishing House:London ;, New York, NY : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (223 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Inferno: Visions of Hell. 1. Hell on Earth ; 2. Sympathy for the Devil ; 3. Treachery
  • Part Two. Purgatory: The Three Story Mountain. 4. Misdirected love ; 5. Insufficient love ; 6. Excessive love
  • Part Three. Paradise: (Lost or Found?). 7. Encountering Jesus ; 8. The compassion connection ; 9. The mystery of God's love
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • Index.