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050 00 $aPN1998.3.C384$bC37 1994
082 00 $a791.43/028/092$220
100 1 $aCarney, Raymond.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82243629
245 14 $aThe films of John Cassavetes :$bpragmatism, modernism, and the movies /$cRay Carney ; photographs by Sam Shaw and Larry Shaw.
260 $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York, NY, USA :$bCambridge University Press,$c1994.
300 $ax, 322 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aCambridge film classics
504 $aFilmography: p. 313-315.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 308-311).
505 0 $aIntroduction: Thinking in Space, Time, and the Body -- 1. Selves in the Making (Shadows) -- 2. Noncontemplative Art (Faces) -- 3. Beating the System (Minnie and Moskowitz) -- 4. An Artist of the Ordinary (A Woman Under the Influence) -- 5. The Path of Greatest Resistance (The Killing of a Chinese Bookie) -- 6. Compositions and Decompositions (Love Streams) -- Epilogue: The Religion of Doing.
520 $aThe Films of John Cassavetes tells the inside story of the making of six of Cassavetes' most important works: Shadows, Faces, Minnie and Moskowitz, A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and Love Streams.
520 8 $aWith the help of almost fifty previously unpublished photographs from the private collections of Sam Shaw and Larry Shaw, and excerpts from interviews with the filmmaker and many of his closest friends, the reader is taken behind the scenes to watch the maverick independent at work: writing his scripts, rehearsing his actors, blocking their movements, shooting his scenes, and editing them.
520 8 $aThrough words and pictures, Cassavetes is shown to have been a deeply thoughtful and self-aware artist and a profound commentator on the American experience.
520 8 $aThis iconoclastic, interdisciplinary study challenges many accepted notions in film history and aesthetics. Ray Carney argues that Cassavetes' films participate in a previously unrecognized form of pragmatic American modernism that, in its ebullient affirmation of life, not only goes against the world-weariness and despair of many twentieth-century works of art, but also places his work at odds with the assumptions and methods of most contemporary film criticism.
520 8 $aCassavetes' films are provocatively linked to the philosophical writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, and John Dewey both as an illustration of the artistic consequences of a pragmatic aesthetic and as an example of the challenges and rewards of a life lived pragmatically. Cassavetes' work is shown to reveal stimulating new ways of knowing, feeling, and being in the world
600 10 $aCassavetes, John,$d1929-1989$xCriticism and interpretation.
830 0 $aCambridge film classics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92063109
852 00 $bglx$hPN1998.3.C384$iC37 1994
852 00 $bbar$hPN1998.3.C384$iC37 1994