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Accidental genius

how John Cassavetes invented American independent film

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An edition of Accidental genius (2005)

Accidental genius

how John Cassavetes invented American independent film

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  • 6 Want to read

Among filmmakers and film buffs, Cassavetes is revered. A major star of live television in the 1950s, he stumbled accidentally into making his first film, Shadows, while leading an acting workshop--and created a template for working outside the system that would produce some of the most piercing and human films of the next thirty years, including Faces, Husbands, and A woman under the influence. Turning his back on Hollywood, he became the prototypical outsider, fighting the system, financing and ultimately distributing his films himself, at a time when there was no apparatus to get a non-studio film into theaters around the country. His life and work are examined in this biography, with cooperation from his wife and muse Gena Rowlands and others of this inner circle, to reveal just how daring and forward-thinking he was.--From publisher description.

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Miramax Books/Hyperion
Language
English
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482

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Subjects

Filmindustrie, Independent filmmakers, Filmkunst, Motion picture producers and directors, Films, Motion picture actors and actresses, Biography

People

John Cassavetes (1929-1989)

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United States, 7.150

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Table of Contents

1
A New York Street Kid -- 3 -- 2
Through College -- 9 -- 3
AADA -- 18 -- 4
Gena -- 25 -- 5
Post-AADA -- 30 -- 6
Sam Shaw -- 37 -- 7
"Paso Doble" -- 42 -- 7
TV Star -- 48 -- 9
Movie Star -- 54 -- 10
The Next Level -- 61 -- 11
The Workshop -- 69 -- 12
Origins of Shadows -- 74 -- 13
Shadows -- 81 -- 14
Shooting Shadows -- 89 -- 15
Going Public -- 97 -- 16
Beat, Square, and Cool -- 101 -- 17
Johnny Staccato and Back to the Shadows -- 112 -- 18
Shadows-A Postscript -- 125 -- 19
Too Late Blues -- 129 -- 20
A Child Is Waiting -- 137 -- 21
In Limbo -- 145 -- 22
Faces -- 151 -- 23
Faces 2 -- 156 -- 24
Dirty Dozen and Rosemary's Baby -- 168 -- 25
Faces 3 -- 176 -- 26
Pre-Husbands -- 187 -- 27
Husbands -- 202 -- 28
Husbands 2 -- 207 -- 29
Husbands 3 -- 226 -- 30
A Leg Up -- 243 -- 31
Minnie and Moskowitz -- 253 -- 32
Minnie and Moskowitz 2 -- 262 -- 33
A Woman Under the Influence -- 274 -- 34
A Woman Under the Influence 2 -- 281 -- 35
A Woman Under the Influence 3 -- 285 -- 36
A Woman Under the Influence 4 -- 297 -- 37
John and Gena -- 308 -- 38
Mikey & Nicky -- 314 -- 39
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie -- 319 -- 40
Bookie 2 -- 329 -- 41
Opening Night -- 336 -- 42
Opening Night 2 -- 345 -- 43
Approach of the '80s -- 351 -- 44
Gloria -- 359 -- 45
Retrospective Tempest -- 375 -- 46
Love Streams on Stage -- 384 -- 47
Love Streams on Screen -- 397 -- 48
Big Trouble -- 416 -- 49
Valedictory-- 420.

Edition Notes

Filmography: p. [435]-442.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-482).

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43023092
Library of Congress
PN1998.3.C384 F56 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 482 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
482

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OL24930504M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
1401352499, 1401360130
ISBN 13
9781401352493, 9781401360139
LCCN
2007295922
OCLC/WorldCat
123084032, 62881176

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