Martin Scorsese's Documentary Histories : Migrations, Movies, Music

"Martin Scorsese's Documentary Histories: Migrations, Movies, Music "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. "Italianamerican"'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. "Martin Scorsese's Documentary Histories" surveys the succeeding films' decisive adherence to this language of retrieval. With extended analyses of" Italianamerican", "American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince"," The Last Waltz, Shine a Light, Feel Like Going Home, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, Il mio viaggio in Italia", and "A Letter to Elia" among others,

Meneghetti resituates Scorsese's filmmaking within the wider contexts of documentary history and American culture. [Publisher's Text]

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