.:THE JOHN CASSAVETES PAGES:.


		Press Release—"A masterpiece of improvisation?"
		Excerpts from Ray Carney's book on the making of Shadows
			Fake improvisation
			Acting as playing
			Autobiographical filmmaking
			Fake locations
			Radical individualism
			A democratic narrative
			Non-ideological understanding
		Rediscovery! Breaking News!
		The two versions
		**Shadows and Pull My Daisy**
		Ray Carney talks about publishing and the changes a book undergoes before it gets into print
		Reviews and responses to Ray Carney's book on Shadows
		To buy books and essays that discuss Cassavetes' life and work


		Excerpts from The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies
			*Shadows*
			*Faces*
			*Husbands*
			*Minnie and Moskowitz*
			*A Woman Under the Influence*
			*The Killing of a Chinese Bookie*
			*Opening Night*
			*Love Streams*
		Non-contemplative art—Thinking in time, space, and the body (Cassavetes' example)
		*Ray Carney talks about researching his Shadows* and Cassavetes on Cassavetes books**
		What are Cassavetes' films about?
		*Reviews and responses to Ray Carney's The Films of John Cassavetes: "One of the greatest books ever written on American film."—Amazon.com*
		To buy books and essays that discuss Cassavetes' life and work


	I am grateful to Paul Harrill and Alex Cruikshank for providing some of the material for this section, but would note that some of the information is incorrect or out-of-date. For up-to-date information, see my Cassavetes on Cassavetes and Shadows books and those sections of the site.
		Gateway
		His life
		His films
		His words
		A list of events in Cassavetes' early career
		Ray Carney talks about Cassavetes as an actor
		Cassavetes' television acting and directing
		Ray Carney talks about photographs in film books
		A John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands scrapbook—A photographic record of clippings from fan magazines
		A Cassavetes chronology
		A Cassavetes bibliography
		To buy books and essays that discuss Cassavetes' life and work


		Press release and list of selected topics
		Excerpts from Ray Carney's Cassavetes on Cassavetes
			Introduction: A life in art—The autobiography Cassavetes never lived to write
			The making of Shadows
			The making of Husbands
			The making of A Woman Under the Influence
			The making of Gloria
		Ray Carney talks with Jim McKay about the time and effort it took to get his three Cassavetes books into print
		"A new experience? Oh, no! Anything but that!"—The critical resistance to Cassavetes' work
		Jake Mahaffy interviews Ray Carney about Cassavetes' personality
		*Reviews and responses to Ray Carney's Cassavetes on Cassavetes: "The best film book ever written."—Harmony Korine*
		To buy books and essays that discuss Cassavetes' life and work


		Press Release
		Excerpts from John Cassavetes: The Adventure of Insecurity—A Pocket Guide to the Films
			*Faces*
			*A Woman Under the Influence*
			*Opening Night*
			*Love Streams*
			Ray Carney talks about non-intellectual art
		An overview of the response by American critics to Cassavetes' work in his lifetime
		Rowlands's retaliation against scholars who try to tell the truth
		The film and video situation with respect to Cassavetes' work—Alternate prints, cut prints, bad prints
		Reviews and responses to Ray Carney's John Cassavetes: The Adventure of Insecurity: "Energy bursts out of your writing!"—John Cassavetes about Ray Carney
		To buy books and essays that discuss Cassavetes' life and work


	A small sampling of other books, articles, and program guides written by Ray Carney about Cassavetes' life and work
		*American Dreaming: The Films of John Cassavetes and the American Experience*
		*Autoportraits: John Cassavetes*
		Post Script magazine's "Special Issue on John Cassavetes"
		Film Comment's "Cassavetes Midsection"
		The Walker Arts Center touring retrospective
		The Miramax retrospective
		John Cassavetes: Interviews published by the University of Mississippi Press
		*The award-winning Kenyon Review* memorial piece**
		The Pioneer DVD Liner Notes
		Other writing about the life and work of John Cassavetes
		Ray Carney talks about why professors are the last to know anything
		To buy books and essays that discuss Cassavetes' life and work


		A summary of Prof. Carney's artistic discoveries
		Carney's 17-year quest for the first version of Shadows
		*The response of the world's press to the Shadows* discovery**
		*Rowlands's response to Carney's Shadows* discovery**
		*How would Cassavetes feel about the attempt to suppress the first version of Shadows?*
		*Who actually owned Shadows* when it was created?**
		Carney's discovery of his own deposit of the long version of Faces
		*Press response to Carney's Faces* discovery**
		*Rowlands's response to Carney's Faces* discovery**
		Myth-making: Rewriting history with Kiselyak's Constant Forge
		*Interviews with Prof. Carney about the Criterion and Shadows* situations**
		*Letters to Prof. Carney about the Shadows, Faces, Criterion, and Kiselyak situations*
		How to obtain Ray Carney's truth-telling books


	The material on this site is provided by Ray Carney, the world's expert on John Cassavetes' life and work. He has written more than ten books (in seven languages) about John Cassavetes. Roll over any of the images to the left and right to be shown a menu of selections from his work, or the image below to learn more about his recent discoveries of new films, new acting and directing credits, and new facts about Cassavetes' life.