'With Gangster Priest, Robert Casillo gives arguably the best reading of Martin Scorsese's "Italian American" films I have come across to date. Casillo's incredibly thorough presentation of the historical and social contexts surrounding the films and the filmmaker himself helps us to see the Italian American films of Martin Scorsese in new and exciting ways. No other scholar has even attempted such a work.' Fred Gardaph , Director of the Italian American Studies Program, Stony Brook University
Robert Casillo is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Miami.
‘Gangster Priest is a timely and essential contribution to Scorsese
scholarship. In particular, Casillo accomplishes in-depth readings
of some of the director’s most well-known feature films, such as
Casino, Goodfellas, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, and Who’s Knocking
at My Door? Overall, the volume is composed of fine analyses that
stand on their own yet also complement one another and work as
cohesive whole.’
*Dana Renga, Italian American Review: Winter 2011*
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