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Martin Scorseses Documentary Histories: Migrations, Movies, Music is the first comprehensive study of Martin Scorseses prolific work as a documentary filmmaker. Highlighting the historiographic aims of the directors various non-fiction film, video, and television productions, Mike Meneghetti re-examines Scorseses documentaries as resourceful audiovisual histories of migrations, movies, and popular music. Italianamericans critical immersion in the post-Sixties ethnic revival inaugurates Scorseses decades-long documentary project in 1974, and the eras developing vernacular of reclamation would shape each of his subsequent non-fiction efforts. Read more