GANGSTER PRIEST: THE ITALIAN AMERICAN CINEMA OF MARTIN SCORSESE Robert Casillo Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, 600 pp.

Reviewed by Marc Raymond

Within the critical literature on Martin Scorsese, there exists a large volume of work on his Italian Catholic background. Robert Casillo's new book Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese represents by far the most comprehensive study of this topic, offering a depth missing from previous work on Scorsese's ethnicity and religion. Casillo smartly devotes most of his analysis to those films that deal with Italian culture directly, with a chapter each on six primary films: Who's That Knocking at My Door?, Mean ...

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