{"product_id":"goodfellas","title":"Goodfellas BFI Film Classics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMartin Scorsese's 1990 movie \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGoodfellas, s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etarring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, narrates the rise and fall of Mafia associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980. The film's focus is on the half-Irish Henry Hill (Liotta) and his Jewish spouse Karen (Bracco), who envy the gangster lifestyle but can never fully be part of the Mafia’s inner circle because of their ethnic identities. Dana Polan's compelling study chronicle the production history of the film, starting with Nick Pileggi’s source book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWiseguy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1985) and its transformation into a script by Pileggi and Scorsese. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe moves on to to consider thematic and formal aspects of the movie: the many moments (aural as well as visual) that make filmic form palpable and celebrate cinematicness; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGoodfellas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e' ethnographic concern with communities whose members build up special worlds for themselves; and connected to that, the complicated relation between artists and other kinds of world-builders (such as the Mafia men Scorsese depicts through his own art of cinema); the complicated interweave of dynamic form and morally dubious content; a narrative that has the ambition of historical sweep combined with a complicated, frequently nonchronological time-frame; the contrast between everyday victims and the special community (of criminals); the role of outsiders who want in (like Henry and eventually Karen – who at first wants to stay out but is seduced eventually into the lifestyle), and the function of voice-over narration. Polan concludes with a consideration of the film’s reception and its lasting impact on later popular culture such as the TV series \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sopranos\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePublisher: ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBFI Publishing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePublication date: ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e12 Nov. 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLanguage: ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePrint length: ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e104 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eISBN-10: ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e180575050X\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eISBN-13: ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e978-1805750505\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eItem weight: ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e170 g\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDimensions: ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2.82 x 1.2 x 19 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDana Polan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Martin Scorsese Professor of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, USA. His books include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePower and Paranoia: History, Narrative, and the American Cinema, 1940-1950\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1986), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIn a Lonely Place \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(BFI Film Classics, 1993), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePulp Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (BFI Film Classics, 2000) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDreams of Flight:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e The Great Escape \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ein American Film and Culture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2021).\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55725738000760,"sku":"710107","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/8799\/9298\/files\/Goodfellas-Film-Classics-Dana-Polan.jpg?v=1793881089","url":"https:\/\/shop.royalarmouries.org\/products\/goodfellas","provider":"Royal Armouries Museum Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}