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MEAN STREETS - DEMETRIOS MATHEOU KARTONIERT (TB)

Mean Streets 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. Demetrios Matheou's insightful study
considers Mean Streets' 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. Matheou argues that while Taxi Driver (1976) and
Raging Bull (1980) are regarded as Scorsese's greatest films of the period  Mean Streets is the
more influential achievement. With it  Scorsese not only paved the way for a new kind of crime
movie  not least his own GoodFellas (1990)  but also inspired generations of
independently-minded film-makers.

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