The director of The Age of Innocence, Martin Scorsese, grew up in New York’s Little Italy. His first feature film – Mean Streets (1973) – focussed on this part of New York and its unique Italian-American sub-culture of masculinity, Catholicism and crime.

Since directing Mean Streets, Scorsese has gone on to direct other films that focus on group cultures, particularly within the setting of New York. In films such as Taxi Driver (1976) and Raging Bull (1980), Scorsese looks at how the individual male struggles to define himself against a wider group or society within a particular New York context.

More recently, Scorsese has returned to this focus on the group and the individual in New York with his film Gangs of New York (2003). In The Age of Innocence, Scorsese deals with many of these key themes including the social dynamics of 1870s New York and the isolation of the individual male in relation to these social groups.

The study map for The Age of Innocence is a visual representation of all key aspects of the text including:

• Genre
• Structure
• Historical Issues
• Style
• Background Notes
• Summary
• Character Profiles
• Themes and Issues
• Sample Examination Questions
  
  
  

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