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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="2"><p>Book Review <font size="4"><br>The Films of Martin Scorsese 1963-77: Authorship and Context</font> <br>book review by David Ng</font> <font size=3 face="Book Antiqua,Century Schoolbook,Times New Roman"> <p><font size="6" color="#808080"><b>A</b></font> dizzyingly in-depth investigation of Martin Scorsese’s pre-<i>Raging Bull</i> oeuvre, <i>The Films of Martin Scorsese 1963 – 77</i> searches for thematic unity starting from his earliest student shorts up to his big-budget debacle <i>New York, New York</i>. The egalitarian approach author Leighton Grist employs, scrutinizing films as diverse as <i>Boxcar Bertha</i> and <i>Taxi Driver</i> with the same critical intensity, may strike some readers as excessively reverent. But Grist, a British film lecturer, sustains a high level of objectivity throughout, eschewing the analysis-through-biography approach so common in literature about Scorsese for a more systematic, cerebral dissection. <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>