Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-ix

Notes on Contributors

pp x-xii

Introduction: Taxi Driver Forward

pp 1-14

Part I - Ideas, Influences, and Intellect

pp 15-16

1 - Schrader and Style

pp 17-32

2 - Movement and Meaning: The “Unmotivated” Camera in Four Films by Paul Schrader

pp 33-50

3 - Late Schrader: From the Canon to the Canyons

pp 51-68

Part II - Instincts, Investigation, and Innovation

pp 69-70

4 - “Thinking White”: Performing Racial Tension in Blue Collar

pp 71-86

5 - Prophets and Zealots: Paul Schrader's Adaptations of The Mosquito Coast and The Last Temptation of Christ

pp 87-104

6 - “So I Found Another Form of Expression”: Art and Life/Art in Life in Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

pp 105-121

7 - Schrader's Women: Cat People and Patty Hearst

pp 122-138

8 - Paul Schrader's Experiment in Italian Neo-decadence: The Comfort of Strangers and the Sadean System

pp 139-154

9 - “Just Being Transparent Baby”: Surveillance Culture, Digitization, and Self-regulation in Paul Schrader's The Canyons

pp 155-170

10 - “Every Act of Preservation is an Act of Creation”: Paul Schrader’s Eco-theology in First Reformed

pp 171-188

11 - Leaning on the Everlasting Arms: Love and Silence in First Reformed

pp 189-206

Part III - Interview

pp 207-208

12 - Interview with Paul Schrader conducted by Michelle E. Moore and Brian Brems on 9/27/2018 at the Rail Line Diner, NYC

pp 209-230

Filmography

pp 231-232

Criticism and Selected Interviews

pp 233-235

Bibliography

pp 236-247

Index

pp 248-259