Widely acclaimed as America's greatest living film director, Martin Scorsese is also, some argue, the pre-eminent Italian American artist. Although he has treated various subjects in over three decades, his most sustained filmmaking and the core of his achievement consists of five films on Italian American subjects - Who's That Knocking at My Door?, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, GoodFellas, and Casino - as well as the documentary Italianamerican. In Gangster Priest Robert Casillo examines these films in the context of the society, religion, culture, and history of Southern Italy, from which the majority of Italian Americans, including Scorsese, derive.Casillo argues that these films cannot be fully appreciated either thematically or formally without understanding the various facets of Italian American ethnicity, as well as the nature of Italian American cinema and the difficulties facing assimilating third-generation artists. Forming a unified whole, Scorsese's Italian American films offer what Casillo views as a prolonged meditation on the immigrant experience, the relationship between Italian America and Southern Italy, the conflicts between the ethnic generations, and the formation and development of Italian American ethnicity (and thus identity) on American soil through the generations. Raised as a Catholic and deeply imbued with Catholic values, Scorsese also deals with certain forms of Southern Italian vernacular religion, which have left their imprint not only on Scorsese himself but also on the spiritually tormented characters of his Italian American films. Casillo also shows how Scorsese interrogates the Southern Italian code of masculine honour in his exploration of the Italian American underworld or Mafia, and through his implicitly Catholic optic, discloses its thoroughgoing and longstanding opposition to Christianity.Bringing a wealth of scholarship and insight into Scorsese's work, Casillo's study will captivate readers interested in the director's magisterial artistry, the rich social history of Southern Italy, Italian American ethnicity, and the sociology and history of the Mafia in both Sicily and the United States.
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从结构上看,这本书的布局简直是艺术品。它巧妙地运用了多重叙事视角,让读者得以从不同人物的眼睛里审视同一个事件,每一次切换都带来了新的信息和理解的偏差,从而不断地建构和解构真相。这种手法极大地增强了悬疑感和代入感,你永远无法确定谁是真正的叙述者,谁又隐藏了什么秘密。更妙的是,作者似乎总是在你认为一切都清晰明了的时候,突然投下一枚重磅炸弹,彻底颠覆你此前的所有判断。这种对读者心理的精准拿捏,显示了作者高超的叙事技巧。我尤其欣赏作者对时间线的处理,它不是线性推进的,而是通过闪回和预示交织在一起,让过去和现在不断对话,最终指向一个必然的结局,但这个过程充满了迷雾和张力。
评分我得说,这本书在人物塑造上的成就,是近年来我读过的作品中最突出的。这里的每一个人都不是扁平的符号,他们有血有肉,有各自难以启齿的过去和无法逃避的宿命。特别是配角的塑造,他们虽然不是故事的主角,但其复杂的动机和多层次的性格,甚至比主角更让人印象深刻。书中对“忠诚”与“背叛”的探讨,是通过一系列极端的事件来展现的,没有简单的对错,只有立场和选择。我甚至对某些“反派”角色产生了复杂的情感,理解他们的行为逻辑,尽管我并不赞同。这种模糊了黑白界限的处理方式,极大地提升了作品的深度。它迫使读者不断地去审视自己对“好人”与“坏人”的刻板印象,真正理解人性的灰色地带。读完后,脑海中浮现的不是情节梗概,而是一张张生动的面孔,他们仿佛活在了我的记忆里。
评分这部作品的文字功底实在是令人惊叹,简直可以用“华丽”来形容,但这种华丽绝非故作姿态,而是恰到好处地服务于故事的情感表达。作者的遣词造句充满了古典韵味,即便是描述最残酷的场景,也能用一种近乎诗意的语言来呈现,形成了一种强烈的反差美学。我特别喜欢作者对环境的描绘,无论是灯火阑珊的都市夜景,还是阴森潮湿的地下密室,都如同油画一般立体而生动地呈现在眼前,让人身临其境。书中人物的对话更是精彩,每一句台词都掷地有声,饱含深意,绝无一句废话。这种精雕细琢的语言风格,使得阅读过程本身变成了一种极大的享受,仿佛在品味一坛陈年的美酒,需要细细咂摸才能体会到其中蕴含的复杂层次和醇厚余味。它让我想起那些文学史上经典名著的笔力,那种对语言的极致追求,在当代作品中已属难得。
评分这本书成功地构建了一个令人信服且充满细节的世界观。虽然故事的基调是严肃和沉重的,但作者对这个特定社会背景下的规则、潜规则以及各种隐秘社团的运作描绘得入木三分。你能感受到那种无处不在的权力制衡和潜在的危险。这种环境的真实感,让故事中的所有冲突都显得合乎情理,即使是那些看似荒诞的事件,置于这个世界观下也变得顺理成章。作者显然下了大量的功夫进行背景研究,各种专业术语和地方风俗的融入自然流畅,没有丝毫的刻意感,这使得整个阅读体验非常扎实,仿佛捧着一本记录真实历史的档案。这种深厚的背景支撑,为角色们的挣扎和选择提供了坚实的土壤,让故事的份量感倍增,值得细细品味。
评分这本书的叙事节奏简直是教科书级别的,从一开始的铺陈到中间的高潮迭起,作者对情节的掌控力让人叹为观止。我几乎无法将注意力从那些错综复杂的人物关系和出人意料的转折上移开。主角的内心挣扎描绘得极其细腻,那种在道德边缘游走的痛苦和挣扎,我仿佛都能感同身受。尤其是在处理几条看似毫无关联的线索最终交汇融合的那一刻,我忍不住拍案叫绝。作者没有采用那种直白的叙事方式,而是通过大量的细节描写和环境烘托,将那个特定的时代背景和压抑的氛围营造得淋漓尽致。读到最后,虽然故事告一段落,但那种震撼感久久不能平复,让人不禁思考人性中最幽暗和最光辉的本质。这本书绝不仅仅是一个简单的故事,它更像是一面镜子,映照出我们内心深处那些不愿面对的真实。每一次重读,都会有新的感悟,发现先前忽略掉的伏笔和精妙之处。
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