The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies
The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies
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 Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie,
and Love Streams), Ray Carney argues that Cassavetes' work is a
distinctly life-affirming form of modernist expression that is at odds
with the world-denying modernism of many of the most important art works
produced in this century. Cassavetes is revealed to be a profoundly
thoughtful and self-aware filmmaker and a deeply philosophical thinker,
whose work takes its place in the American tradition along with the
writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James. The six films treated
here emerge as expressive interpretations of the bewildering challenges
in contemporary American cultural experience.
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