Illustrations
Figures
- 6.1 J.R. (Harvey Keitel) in Who’s That Knocking at My Door. 124
- 6.2 J.R. (Harvey Keitel) in Who’s That Knocking at My Door. 124
- 6.3 J.R. (Harvey Keitel) in Who’s That Knocking at My Door. 125
- 6.4 Anonymous woman trampled after the LaMotta-Reeves fight in Raging Bull. 134
- 6.5 Anonymous woman trampled after the LaMotta-Reeves fight in Raging Bull. 134
- 6.6 Boxcar Bertha (Barbara Hershey) in Boxcar Bertha. 137
- 6.7 Boxcar Bertha (Barbara Hershey) in Boxcar Bertha. 137
- 6.8 Big Bill Shelly (David Carradine) as Christ-figure in Boxcar Bertha. 139
- 6.9 Big Bill Shelly (David Carradine) in Boxcar Bertha. 139
- 9.1 “He’s already gone, completely gone.” Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage) in Bringing Out the Dead. 197
- 9.2 Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) in Taxi Driver. 197
- 9.3 Frank’s growing attraction to Mary Burke (Patricia Arquette) conveyed in a dissolve between two shots. 202
- 9.4 Our Lady of Perpetual Mercy. 203
- 9.5 Joe Connelly (uncredited) is brought into the hospital as a patient. 204
- 9.6 A sighting of Rose in Bringing Out the Dead. 214
- 9.7 “You have the power, Jesus, you have the might, you have the super light.” 216
- 9.8 The Oasis in Bringing Out the Dead. 217
- 9.9 Bringing out the dead. 217
- 9.10 Bringing out the dead. 218
- 9.11 Raising the possessed in The Last Temptation of Christ. 219
- 9.12 Charlie (Harvey Keitel) before the Pietà in Mean Streets. 221
- 9.13 Pietà in The Last Temptation of Christ; Mary Magdalene (Barbara Hershey) cradling Jesus (Willem Dafoe). 222
- 9.14 Pietà in Bringing Out the Dead: Frank cradling Cy. 224
- 9.15 Pietà in Bringing Out the Dead: Mary cradling Frank. 227