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001 2007295922
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008 070518s2005 nyuaf bq 000 0beng d
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020 $a9781401352493 (hbk.)
020 $a1401352499 (hbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm62881176
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100 1 $aFine, Marshall,$d1950-
245 10 $aAccidental genius :$bhow John Cassavetes invented American independent film /$cby Marshall Fine.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bMiramax Books/Hyperion,$cc2005.
300 $axiii, 482 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aFilmography: p. [435]-442.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [443]-482).
520 $aAmong 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.
600 10 $aCassavetes, John,$d1929-1989.
650 0 $aMotion picture producers and directors$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aMotion picture actors and actresses$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aIndependent filmmakers$zUnited States$vBiography.
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650 17 $aFilms.$2gtt
650 17 $aFilmindustrie.$2gtt
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