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Cambridge Film ClassicsFilms of John Cassavetes, The (Cambridge Film Classics) (1994)
by Raymond Carney
The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies is the first book to tell in detail the story of a maverick filmmaker who worked outside the studio system. Providing extended critical discussion on six of his most important films (Shadows, Faces, Minnie and Moskowitz, A Woman... (learn more about this book)
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American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra (1986)
by Raymond Carney
The first interdisciplinary study of America's best-known filmmaker. (learn more about this book)
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Directors on DirectorsCassavetes on Cassavetes
by Raymond Carney
Since his death in 1989, John Cassavettes has become increasingly renowned as a cinematic hero--a renegade loner who fought the Hollywood system, steering his own creative course in a career spanning thirty years. Having already established himself as an actor, he struck out as a filmmaker in... (learn more about this book)
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Cambridge Film ClassicsThe Films of Mike Leigh (Cambridge Film Classics)
by Raymond Carney
The Films of Mike Leigh is the first critical study of one of the most important and eccentric directors of British independent filmmaking. Although active since 1971, Leigh has only come to the attention of an international audience in the 1990s through films such as Secrets and Lies, and... (learn more about this book)
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Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (Cambridge Studies in Film)
by Raymond Carney
Carl Dreyer (1889-1968) is the subject of this analysis which concentrates on his three most accessible sound films - "Day of Wrath", "Odet" and "Gertrud". Often regarded as esoteric and challenging, Dreyer has rarely been studied, and this book attempts to reverse the trend. (learn more about this book)
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BFI Film ClassicsShadows
by Raymond Carney
Illustrated Shadows, John Cassavetes' first film, ends with the title card, "The film you have just seen was an improvisation." Shortly before Cassavetes' death, however, he confessed to Ray Carney something he had never before revealed-that much of his so-called "masterpiece of improvization"... (learn more about this book)
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John Cassavetes in Person
by Raymond Carney
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... (learn more about this book)
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