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Overview"John Cassavetes - celebrated as the father of American independent filmmaking - managed to frustrate biographers with wildly conflicting 'facts' about himself, making it impossible to form an accurate picture of the man and the artist. In this extraordinary book, Ray Carney assembles the filmmaker's statements and writings to present Cassavetes' life and work in his own words, vividly revealing the personal and cultural forces that shaped his career as a writer-director of fiercely independent films - from ""Shadows"", ""Faces"", and ""Husbands"" in the late 1950s and 1960s to ""Minnie and Moskowitz"", ""A Woman under the Influence"", ""The Killing of a Chinese Bookie"", ""Opening Night"", ""Gloria"", and ""Love Streams"" in the decades that followed.Framed by Carney's comprehensive introduction and bolstered by an invaluable timeline of major developments, including his marriage to actress Gena Rowlands, ""John Cassavetes in Person"" offers a biographical overview unlike any other. Situating the filmmaker in his films, this book reaches beyond the press releases to reveal the man behind the masks, the mortal at the center of the myths, and the artistic hero without the hero worship." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ray CarneyPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press ISBN: 9780520245723ISBN 10: 0520245725 Pages: 472 Publication Date: 01 January 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsAbout the Text A Meditation on the Fascination with Artists' Biographies, Autobiographies, and Statements A Chip on His Shoulder Timeline 1929-1960 Shadows An actor only feels what he feels, and is completely unaware of what anyone else feels. The artist is an irreplaceable figure. John the Giant Killer Timeline 1960-1968 Too Late Blues, A Child Is Waiting, and Faces All this sounds a little mad-'off-beat.' They will say-'Yes it's different, but-will it sell?' Constantly covering by erratic behavior, by being a clown, by showing off. I decided to do a film on my own again. We have to move beyond the current obsession with technique or camera angles. Untamed and Unashamed Timeline 1968-1970 Husbands Where the hell is my 38 thousand? I want it and I want it now! Going to London means ... finding out who you are and what you've become. If you have to make a film, you have to make a film. Beating the System-and Getting Beaten Timeline 1971-1972 Minnie and Moskowitz People have become invisible, and nobody can see or reach their real selves. There's nothing you can believe in in this society, because there's no trust between one person and another. It just kills you, the insanity that's going on in America. We should be experimenting, delving into life as we would like to see it, rather than settling for it as it now exists. Evading the insanity that life subjects us to. A Self-Portrait in Pain Timeline 1972-1975 A Woman under the Influence You didn't get it-right? We really try to convert people's lives. They can't think with their own mind. They begin to think with other people's minds. Maybe it is a sick society that we live in. I feel that my filmic life has come to some kind of an end. Independence means ... film is still a mystery, not a way out. Going for Broke Timeline 1975-1978 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Opening Night This is a stupid town! It's an enormous struggle to make films-wearing, unromantic. Dark Nights of the Soul Timeline 1978-1984 Gloria and Love Streams Come on, John. Stop the games. Why don't we go in and try to find out what people are really thinking even if we don't know? The End of the Road Timeline 1985-1989 Big Trouble An artist can do anything as long as he doesn't accept facts, or defeat, for more than a few minutes. Preserving the Legacy, Telling the Story Timeline 1989-present Acknowledgments IndexReviewsAuthor InformationRay Carney is Professor of Film and American Studies at Boston University. He is the editor of Cassavetes on Cassavetes and the author of Shadows, The Films of John Cassavetes, The Films of Mike Leigh, The Films of Frank Capra, and American Dreaming: The Films of John Cassavetes among many books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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