Ray Carney's Artistic Discoveries

• A summary of Professor Ray Carney’s artistic discoveries
• Professor Carney’s 17-year quest for the lost first version of Shadows
  • A news story about a typical New York City Subway Sale of the sort at which the first version of Shadows was purchased
• The response of the world’s press to Professor Carney’s Shadows discovery
• Gena Rowlands’s response to Professor Carney’s Shadows discovery
• How would Cassavetes feel about Rowlands’s attempt to suppress the first version of Shadows?
• Legal considerations–Who actually owned Shadows when it was created?
  • Rowlands, Ruban, and the first version of Shadows -- a compilation of frequently asked questions and answers
• Professor Carney’s discovery in the Library of Congress of his own deposit of the long version of Faces
• Press response to Ray Carney’s Faces discovery
• Gena Rowlands’s response to Professor Carney’s Faces discovery
• Myth-making: Rowlands’s attempt to rewrite history with Charles Kiselyak’s Constant Forge
• Interviews with Ray Carney about the effect of Criterion letting Rowlands have veto power over what was included in the box set
  • Interview with George Hunka
  • Interview with Shelley Friedman
• Letters to Prof. Carney from artists about the Shadows, Faces, Criterion, and Kiselyak situation
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• How to obtain books that strip away the myths and tell the truth about Cassavetes and the making of Shadows and Faces

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