{"product_id":"just-a-shot-away-mark-binelli-9781250905130","title":"Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese's Life in Film","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first major biography of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin Scorsese, America's greatest modern filmmaker, a book as stylish and audacious as the director's movies, drawing on previously unseen sources, original research, and new interviews to reveal the origins, genius, and influence of his life and work\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eJust a Shot Away\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the brilliant and tumultuous life and career of Martin Scorsese, one of the world's foremost living filmmakers, from his childhood on the violent streets of mid-century Little Italy, recreated in unprecedented detail, to his tectonic contributions to the cinema of the New Hollywood and beyond. The making of such masterpieces as \u003ci\u003eTaxi Driver\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRaging Bull\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Waltz\u003c\/i\u003e are explored here in revelatory depth, along with undersung favorites like\u003ci\u003e Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAfter Hours\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith new sources and interviews, Mark Binelli conjures Scorsese's asthmatic boyhood, spent memorizing movies and watching wiseguys. He traces the earliest steps out of Little Italy and into filmmaking, marriage, and the halting path to recognition, which, when it came, coincided with a personal life spiraling out of control. Previously untold fly-on-the-wall accounts detail wild stories of cocaine-fueled days and nights jetting to international film festivals and hunkered down behind the blacked-out windows of the director's infamous Mulholland Drive bachelor pad (shared with Robbie Robertson of The Band). Yet Scorsese rebounded with a career that itself serves as a pocket history of the more than half-century of Hollywood he's traversed, making classics decade after decade in a startling array of genres and for nearly every major studio. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough deep archival research, interviews with dozens of friends and collaborators, and access to a trove of previously undiscovered material, including firsthand accounts from Scorsese, his parents, Robertson, Robert De Niro, and ex-wife Isabella Rossellini, \u003ci\u003eJust a Shot Away \u003c\/i\u003edynamically recasts the life of the master filmmaker with brio and the headlong, form-shattering dynamism of one of its subject's own indelible pictures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Binelli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250905133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250905130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Metropolitan Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d","brand":"Mark Binelli","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48460295209215,"sku":"9781250905130","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cf5389e8-5ecd-44d8-b50b-d45724ccc454.jpg?v=1777413810","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/just-a-shot-away-mark-binelli-9781250905130","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}