Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contributors

Introduction: Taxi Driver Forward - Brian Brems and Michelle E. Moore


Schrader and Style - Erik M. Bachman


Movement and Meaning: The "unmotivated" Camera in Four Films by Paul Schrader - Deborah Allison


Late Schrader: From the Canon to the Canyons - BillyStevenson

"Thinking White:" Performing Racial Tension in Blue Collar - Scott Balcerzak

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


"So I find another form of expression": Art and Life/Art in Life in Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters - Thomas Prasch

Schrader’s Women: Cat People and Patty Hearst - Brian Brems


Paul Schrader’s Experiment in Italian Neo-decadence: The Comfort of Strangers and the Sadean System - Robert Dassanowsky


"Just Being Transparent Baby": Surveillance Culture, Digitization and Self-Regulation in Paul Schrader’s The Canyons - James Slaymaker


"Every Act of Preservation Is an Act of Creation": Paul Schrader’s Eco-Theology in First Reformed - Tatiana Prorokova


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


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


Filmography
Bibliography

About the Author

Michelle E. Moore, Professor, College of DuPage. Brian Brems, Associate Professor, College of DuPage.

Reviews

"As a filmmaker and as an essayist, Paul Schrader has always been focused on the life of spirit, often under the most debased conditions and shocking circumstances. That focus, as a writer and as a director, has resulted in several truly remarkable pictures. We’ve worked together on and off throughout the better part of our lives. It hasn’t always been easy, but it has always been fruitful and, quite often, revelatory. Truly, I don’t know where the art of cinema would be without his work, his mind, and his presence. This collection is a just and illuminating tribute to the work of a very important artist." - Martin Scorsese