The films of John Cassavetes

pragmatism, modernism, and the movies

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The films of John Cassavetes

pragmatism, modernism, and the movies

The 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.

With the help of almost fifty previously unpublished photographs from the private collections of Sam Shaw and Larry Shaw, and excerpts from interviews with the filmmaker and many of his closest friends, the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.

Through words and pictures, Cassavetes is shown to have been a deeply thoughtful and self-aware artist and a profound commentator on the American experience.

This 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.

Cassavetes' 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

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English
Pages
322

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The films of John Cassavetes: pragmatism, modernism, and the movies
1994, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Filmography: p. 313-315.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-311).

Published in
Cambridge [England], New York, NY, USA
Series
Cambridge film classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/028/092
Library of Congress
PN1998.3.C384 C37 1994, PN1998.3.C384 C37 19

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 322 p. :
Number of pages
322

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1397008M
ISBN 10
0521381193, 0521388155
LCCN
93004474
OCLC/WorldCat
28112129
Library Thing
248899
Goodreads
652442
310978

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