{"product_id":"mean-streets-9781839022951","title":"Mean Streets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMean Streets\u003c\/i\u003e was Martin Scorsese's third feature film, and the one that confirmed him as a major new talent. On its premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1973, the critic Pauline Kael hailed the film as 'a true original of our period, a triumph of personal film-making'. The tale of combative friends and small-time crooks is set amid the bars, pool halls, tenements and streets of Manhattan's Little Italy. Scorsese has said of his childhood neighbourhood, 'its very texture was interwoven with organised crime', and this quality would dramatically inform the tone and restless energy of his seminal film. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDemetrios Matheou's insightful study considers \u003ci\u003eMean Streets\u003c\/i\u003e' production history in the context of the New Hollywood period of American cinema, noting also the key roles played by John Cassavetes and Roger Corman. He analyses the importance of Scorsese's background to the film's characters and themes, including preoccupations with guilt, redemption and criminal subcultures; the development of the director's film-making process and signature style; the way in which he both drew upon and invigorated the crime genre; his relationship with emerging stars Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel, and the film's reception and legacy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Matheou argues that while \u003ci\u003eTaxi Driver\u003c\/i\u003e (1976) and \u003ci\u003eRaging Bull\u003c\/i\u003e (1980) are regarded as Scorsese's greatest films of the period, \u003ci\u003e Mean Streets \u003c\/i\u003eis the more influential achievement. With it, Scorsese not only paved the way for a new kind of crime movie, not least his own \u003ci\u003eGoodFellas\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), but also inspired generations of independently-minded film-makers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-15829333\"\u003eDemetrios Matheou\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e British Film Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.52h x 5.42w x 0.04d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781839022951\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1839022957\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PER\"\u003ePerforming Arts\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PER004030\"\u003eFilm | History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDemetrios Matheou\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist, critic, writer and programmer, based in London, UK, who has written extensively on cinema for 25 years. In that time his criticism, interviews and features have appeared in most of the UK's broadsheet newspapers, including \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, The Observer, The Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Independent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e. In the 1990s he was the news editor of \u003ci\u003ePremiere \u003c\/i\u003emagazine in the UK, and film critic and contributing editor of \u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the film critic for Scotland's \u003ci\u003eSunday Herald \u003c\/i\u003enewspaper between 2004-18 and since 2010 has been a member of the collective of journalists who produce the award-winning arts website, \u003ci\u003eThe Arts Desk\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"British Film Institute","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44716264325357,"sku":"9781839022951","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_b6d65be4-1fb9-42ce-ae5e-7f8991428497.jpg?v=1704137979","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/mean-streets-9781839022951","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}