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Master Table of
Contents for Ray Carney's www.Cassavetes.com
The John Cassavetes Pages/The Independent Film Pages/The Film and Other Arts
Pages
If you are interested in new postings and recently updated pages, there are two ways to locate such material. One is to scan through the listings below. Postings from the last 90 Days are marked New! Another way to locate new or recently updated postings is to go to the "Mailbag" section of the site (accessible by clicking the "Mailbag Letters and Replies" button at the top or bottom of this page) and read through the last few pages. Since the "Mailbag" functions similarly to a blog, allowing frequent readers of the site to comment on recent postings and Ray Carney, the creator of the site, to draw readers' attention to new material, its final pages (which are constantly being updated and added to) provide links to or discussions of the most important or newsworthy new postings.
It is highly recommended that you use the site's regular menu system to navigate and get around, but the Master Table of Contents follows if you would like to see a listing of all of the subsections of the site. Be forewarned though, reading this listing can be more confusing than moving around the site using the menus that are available on the regular site pages.
A note: Be sure to turn off all "pop-up blocking" you may have on your computer. The entire site uses pop-ups to link pages. There is no downside to this. You will not have annoying advertising banners inflicted on you. You will not be transported to other sites. This site is non-sponsored and completely non-commercial. There is no advertising. That is why it can provide truly independent judgments, not influenced by commercial pressures. You will need to be able to access pop-up windows to move around in it. (If you are unsure how to turn it off, click here.)
Finally, please be aware that the pages on the site, extensive as they are, only provide a small sample of Prof. Carney's work. He has written much much more than is available here. If you are interested in his views and opinions, you should read the books and essays from which the brief excerpts on this site are taken. The individual pages of the site give information about obtaining books and essays relevant to those sections, and the Bookstore section contains a complete listing of the publications by Prof. Carney currently available and information about how to obtain them.
Home: Ray Carney
on Life and Art
Welcome
to The John Cassavetes Pages / The Independent Film Pages / The Film and Other Arts Pages
- Critics on Carney
- Career Overview
- Reviews and responses to The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies
- Reviews and responses to Cassavetes on Cassavetes
- Reviews and responses to the American Dreaming: The Films of John Cassavetes and the American Experience
- Reviews and responses to the book on the making of Shadows
- Reviews and responses to American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra
- Reviews and responses to The Films of Mike Leigh: Embracing the World
- Reviews and responses to Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer
- Selected Boston University course syllabi
- The Boston University film studies program New!
- A Modest Proposal: Why Film Schools Should be Abolished and Replaced with Majors in Auto Mechanics New!
- Ray Carney's viewing recommendations New!
- A work-in-progress by Ray Carney: What is Art? -- John Cassavetes and the Creative Process New!
- Partial list of Ray Carney's publications
- Excerpts from two interviews with Ray Carney about his background and education
Ray Carney's Mailbag: Letters from students and artists, announcements of events and screenings, and miscellaneous observations about life and art by Ray Carney
More than 500 of the most interesting
or newsworthy letters written to Ray Carney from students and artists (selected from the more
than 10,000 a year that Carney receives), along with some of his replies and responses. They
include comments about recent films and filmmakers, questions about filmmaking and distribution problems, and updates and reflections on a range of recent issues, including Gena Rowlands's and Al Ruban's attempts to suppress Carney's artistic discoveries. (To read an index of the most important and popular topics covered on the Mailbag pages, click here.)
- Introductory statement about the Mailbag by Prof. Carney and Page 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20 / 21 / 22 / 23 / 24 / 25 / 26 / 27 / 28 / 29 / 30 / 31 / 32 / 33 / 34 / 35 / 36 / 37 / 38 / 39 / 40 / 41 / 42 / 43 / 44 / 45 / 46 / 47 / 48 / 49 / 50 / 51 / 52 / 53 / 54 / 55 / 56 / 57/ 58 / 59 / 60 / 61 / 62 / 63 / 64 / 65 / 66 / 67 / 68 / 69 / 70 / 71 / 72 / 73 / 74 / 75 / 76 / 77 / 78 / 79 / 80 / 81 / 82 / 83 / 84 / 85 / 86 / 87 / 88 / 89 / 90 / 91 / 92 / 93 / 94 / 95 / 96 / 97 / 98 / 99 / 100 / 101 New! / 102 New! / 103 New! / 104 New! / 105 New! / 106 New! / 107 New! / 108 New! / 109 New! / 110 New! / 111 New! / 112 New! / 113 New! / 114 New! / 115 New! / 116 New! / 117 New! / 118 New! / 119 New! / 120 New! / 121 New! / 122 New!
Ray Carney's Artistic Discoveries
- A summary of Professor Ray Carney’s artistic discoveries New!
- Professor Carney’s 17-year quest for the lost first version of Shadows New!
- The response of the world’s press to Professor Carney’s Shadows discovery
- Gena Rowlands’s response to Professor Carney’s Shadows discovery New!
- How would Cassavetes feel about Rowlands’s attempt to suppress the first version of Shadows? New!
- Legal considerations–Who actually owned Shadows when it was created?
- Professor Carney’s discovery in the Library of Congress of his own deposit of the long version of Faces New!
- Press response to Ray Carney’s Faces discovery
- Gena Rowlands’s response to Professor Carney’s Faces discovery New!
- Myth-making: Rowlands’s attempt to rewrite history with Charles Kiselyak’s Constant Forge New!
- Interviews with Ray Carney about the effect of Criterion letting Rowlands have veto power over what was included in the box set
- Letters to Prof. Carney from artists about the Shadows,
Faces, Criterion, and Kiselyak situation
- How to obtain books that strip away the myths and tell the truth about Cassavetes and the making of Shadows and Faces
Bookstore
Information
on how to obtain books, essays, and interviews with Ray Carney about art, film, and life
- Cassavetes on Cassavetes
- The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies
- John Cassavetes: The Adventure of Insecurity
- Shadows
- Collected Essays on the Life and Work of John Cassavetes
- "Special Issue: John Cassavetes." PostScript: Essays in Film and the Humanities
- A Detective Story: Going Inside the Heart and Mind of the Artist: A Study of Cassavetes' Revisionary Process in the Two Versions of Shadows
- American Dreaming: The Films of John Cassavetes and the American Experience
- Why Art Matters: A collection of essays, interviews, and lectures on life and art
- Necessary Experiences: What art can show us about ourselves and our culture
- What's Wrong with Film Courses, Film Criticism, and Film Reviewing-And How to Do It Right
- A Modern Mosaic: Art and Modernism in the United States
- The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays in Social Thought, Law, and Culture
- The Films of Mike Leigh: Embracing the World
- American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra
- Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer
- Learning from Dreyer: Reflections on the Lessons His Work Teaches
- Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965
- Your Life is a Movie: Alternative Visions of Film, Media, and Culture New!
The John Cassavetes Pages
Dedicated to the spiritual father of American independent
filmmaking
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.
A Book on the Making of Shadows
- Press Release — "A masterpiece of improvisation?"
- Excerpts from Ray Carney's book on the making of Shadows
- The two versions
- Shadows and Pull My Daisy
- Flash! News! After 17 years of searching, Ray Carney finds the long-lost first version of Shadows New!
- Ray Carney's personal account of his 17-year quest to find the first version of Shadows New!
- Responses by the world's press to Ray Carney's discovery of the first version of Shadows
- Gena Rowlands's and Al Ruban's efforts to confiscate and suppress the print of Shadows and to have Carney's work removed from the Criterion box set New!
- Two interviews with Ray Carney about Rowlands's attempts to suppress the Shadows print, censor his work, and control what Carney says and writes
- Ray Carney talks about publishing and the changes a book undergoes before it gets into print New!
- Reviews and responses to Ray Carney's book on Shadows
- To buy books and essays that discuss Cassavetes life and work
The Films of John Cassavetes -- An In-Depth Study of the Major Films
- 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 and non-Faustian Art: Thinking in Time, Space, and the Body
- Ray Carney talks about researching his Shadows and Cassavetes on Cassavetes books New!
- What are Cassavetes' films about?
- Reviews and Responses to The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies
- To buy books and essays that discuss Cassavetes' life and work
- Gateway
- His life
- His films
- His words
- A list of events in the first forty years of Cassavetes' early career
- A chronology covering the final ten years of Cassavetes' life and the nineteen years following his death
- Ray Carney talks about Cassavetes as an actor New!
- Cassavetes' work acting and directing for television New!
- Ray Carney talks about the use of photographs in film books
- A John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands scrapbook—A photographic record of clippings from fan magazines
- A Cassavetes bibliography
- To buy books and essays that discuss Cassavetes life and work
Cassavetes on Cassavetes -- The Filmmaker's Autobiography
- Press Release and list of selected topics
- Excerpts from Ray Carney's Cassavetes on Cassavetes
- "A New Experience? Oh, no! Anything but that!"—The critical resistance to Cassavetes' work and why it wasn't appreciated during his lifetime
- Ray Carney talks with Jim McKay about the time and effort it took to get his three Cassavetes books into print
- 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
- An interview with Ray Carney for Real Groove magazine (New Zealand) about Gena Rowlands's stewardship of Cassavetes' legacy New!
- Rowlands's perpetuation of a Disneyland version of Cassavetes' life and work, her attempts to control what is written about Cassavetes, and her retaliation against scholars who try to tell the truth New!
- The film and audio 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
Other Books and Articles about Cassavetes
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 souvenir catalogue prepared by Ray Carney for the 1989 thirteen-city Walker Arts Center/Pacific Film Archive touring retrospective of Cassavetes' complete work New!
- The program written by Ray Carney for the 1997 four-city
Miramax retrospective of Cassavetes' films New!
- Cover
- 1 (Inside Cover)
- 2 (Intro)
- 3 (Shadows)
- 4 (Faces)
- 5 (Husbands)
- 6 (Minnie & Moskowitz)
- 7 (A Woman Under the Influence)
- 8 (Love Streams)
- 9 (Waking Up in the Dark)
- 10 (Waking Up in the Dark)
- 11 (The Adventure of Insecurity)
- 12 (The Adventure of Insecurity)
- 13 (The Adventure of Insecurity)
- 14 (The Adventure of Insecurity)
- 15 (The Adventure of Insecurity)
- 16 (John Cassavetes on life, love, and art)
- 17 (John Cassavetes on life, love, and art)
- 18 (John Cassavetes on life, love, and art)
- John Cassavetes: Interviews published by the University of Mississippi Press
- The Pioneer DVD Liner Notes
- The award-winning Kenyon Review memorial piece
- 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, click here
The Independent
Film Pages
Dedicated to
film not as business and box office receipts, but as a means of understanding life. Art speaks
truths that we have no other way to express.
The material on this site is
provided by Ray Carney, an authority on American independent film, and a frequent speaker on
indie film at festivals and special events around the world.
For Artists Only -- The Independent Vision
- Fake Independence and Reel Truth
- Disneywood: A Chilly View of Hollywood
- The Rules of the Game - An Interview with Ray Carney
- How (and How Not) to Do it: An Open Letter to the Next Generation of American Filmmakers
- The Path of the Artist—Part 1
- The Path of the Artist—Part 2
- The Path of the Artist—Part 3
- Challenging Understandings: Charles Burnett's To Sleep With Anger
- Mark Rappaport: Snapshots of the Man Wearing the Mask
- Thoughts on the "dark vision" of Solondz, LaBute, Mendes, and Anderson New!
- The difference between having a career and a life New!
- At the Other Movies—A lecture and viewing list
- To buy one of Ray Carney's packets about Independent Film
British Independent -- The Films of Mike Leigh
- Excerpts from Ray Carney's The Films of Mike Leigh: Embracing the World
- Bleak Moments
- Kiss of Death
- Nuts in May
- Abigail's Party
- Grown-Ups
- Home Sweet Home
- Meantime
- High Hopes
- Life is Sweet
- The problem with cultural and ideological approaches to Leigh's work New!
- Reviews and responses to Ray Carney's The Films of Mike Leigh: Embracing the World
- To buy a book about Mike Leigh's films
The Real Independent Movement -- A Forthcoming Book
- Information about Ray Carney's The Real Independent Movement: Beyond the Hype
- A survey of the first thirty years of American independent filmmaking New!
- Only connect—the work of Robert Kramer New!
- Interview with Ray Carney about writing on independent film
- Teaching non-Hollywood film—New ways of seeing, knowing, and feeling
- The viewer is always right. Or is she/he?
- Why intellectuals don't understand art New!
- The film festival fallacy
- Charlie Rose, Fresh Air, and other cultural problems
- An oxymoron—Film culture
- Journalists and the public interest
- To buy one of Ray Carney's packets about Independent Film
Carney on Culture -- Reflections on the Awfulness of American Film Reviewing
- The world's most over-rated movies
- There's no business like show business
- Scattershots on multicultural unawareness
- Mental Identities: When being replaces doing (Leigh's lesson for Hollywood)
- Modernism for the millions—The films of Woody Allen
- Why journalists should never be confused with critics—Kael, Sarris, Schickel, Kauffmann, Simon, Corliss, Canby, and others
- They never grew up—the pop culture frivolousness of American film reviewing—the examples of David Denby and others
- The difference between fake and real emotions-in life and art -- a discussion of the effect of artificial ideals and emotions in American culture and film New!
- A Rappaportian "third realm" and America's "culture of unreality" -- the creation of artificial drama, fake issues, and illusory solutions by the American mass media. New!
- What's wrong with the media? Why are things so banal, so trivial, so bad? New!
- To buy one of Ray Carney's packets about Independent Film
The Films of the Beat Movement, 1950 to 1965
- Escape Velocity: An Overview of the Major Works of Beat Filmmaking
- No Exit: John Cassavetes' Shadows and Robert Frank's Pull My Daisy
- The Beat Movement on Film—a comprehensive, annotated screening list
- Information about Ray Carney's writing on the beat movement
News and Events Connected with Independent Film
- Imaginative Truth
- How Not To Make A Movie
- "Hollywood and the University—an email to the university PR Dept."
- A response to the events of September 11th
- A newly discovered lost, long print of Faces
- An interview with Ray Carney about the digital revolution New!
- Ray Carney talks about the Blues Brothers—Jonathan Rosenbaum and Adrian Martin
- Ray Carney's lectures and personal appearances in other cities
- Up and coming—mainly new (but a few older) artists and works worth looking out for New!
- Harvard Film Archive 2006 emerging talents program New!
- Harvard Film Archive 2007 emerging talents program New!
- Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night" series at the Harvard Film Archive, November 2007 New!
- Wings of Desire, etc. New!
- Mulholland Drive and "puzzle films"
- Guest Shots—Thoughts by Andrew Bujalski, Donal Foreman, Charles Lyons, and others (including Ray Carney) about the state of the art
- Andrew Bujalski on the art and business of film New!
- Charles Lyons on going for broke
- Andrei Tarkovsky on film school and trying to please people New!
- The Puffy Chair New!
- A Modest Proposal: Why Film Schools Should be Abolished and Replaced with Majors in Auto Mechanics New!
- JuneBug, 2046, and Mutual Appreciation New!
- David Chien on Caveh Zahedi's I am a Sex Addict New!
- Donal Foreman on "What's Wrong with the Movies" New!
- Donal Foreman on "The Present State of Irish Television and the Irish Film Industry" New!
- Donal Foreman on "The State of the Art" New!
- Other films and filmmakers Ray Carney recommends
- Quotations about the artistic process New!
- Trumping Trump: The quiet beauty of Aaron Katz's Quiet City New!
- Henry James, "The Art of Fiction" Part 1, Part 2 New!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Circles" Part 1, Part 2 New!
- Making Honey: An Interview with Filmmaker David Ball New!
- LET THE RIGHT ONE IN: An appreciation by Nina Avedon New!
- To buy one of Ray Carney's packets about Independent Film
The Film and Other Arts Pages
Our universities are founded on the fallacy of specialization.
The arts are one. The soul speaks in a thousand voices but expresses the same truths over and
over again.
The material on this site is provided by Ray Carney, an interdisciplinary arts
scholar who has written extensively on the relation of American painting, literature, drama,
dance, film, and philosophy, and curated museum shows on the relation of the arts.
American Painting -- Homer, Eakins, Sargent, and Hopper
- John Singer Sargent
- Thomas Eakins
- An excerpt from Ray Carney's Partisan Review evaluation of Michael Fried's approach to Thomas Eakins' work
- An excerpt from Ray Carney's contribution to Morris Dickstein's The Revival of Pragmatism on Thomas Eakins' Gross and Agnew clinic paintings
- An excerpt from Ray Carney's contribution to Morris Dickstein's The Revival of Pragmatism on Thomas Eakins' boating paintings
- An excerpt from Ray Carney's contribution to Morris Dickstein's The Revival of Pragmatism on Thomas Eakins' Portrait of Prof. Henry Rowlands
- An excerpt from Ray Carney's contribution to Morris Dickstein's The Revival of Pragmatism on Thomas Eakins' The Crucifixion
- An excerpt from Ray Carney's American Vision on Thomas Eakins' Baby at Play
- An excerpt from Ray Carney's American Vision on Winslow Homer's Breezing Up and other paintings
- An excerpt from Ray Carney's American Vision on Edward Hopper's A Woman in the Sun
- Information about Ray Carney's writing on American painting, thought, and culture
Henry James: The Heroic Mind -- A Forthcoming Book
- Information about Ray Carney's forthcoming book on Henry James' late style–The Heroic Mind
- Ray Carney's edition of What Maisie Knew and The Spoils of Poynton
- “The Story in It” – Henry James' short fiction from 1895 to 1903
- An essay on Henry James' Confidence and The Sacred Fount
- An essay on Henry James' The Awkward Age
- An essay on Henry James' The Ambassadors
- An essay on Henry James' The Wings of the Dove
- An essay on Henry James' The Golden Bowl
- An essay on Henry James' The Velvet Glove
- Information about Ray Carney's writing on American literature, thought, and culture
American Painting from 1860 to 1920 -- A Forthcoming Book
- Where Do We Find Ourselves? A forthcoming book on American painting from 1860 to 1920
- Issues of self-representation—Henry James and John Singer Sargent, Madame Merle and Isabel Archer, Mrs. Fiske Warren and her daughter Rachel
- Information about Ray Carney's writing and lecturing on American painting, thought, and culture
Academic Animadversions -- For Ph.D.s Only
- Skepticism and Faith: The limitations of ideological approaches to art—excerpts from a review of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory
- Looking without Seeing: The limitations of political approaches to art—excerpts from a review of David James's Allegories of Cinema
- The Culture of Irony, Part 1: The limitations of treating art as a form of rhetoric instead of as a form of truth—the example of Mike Leigh
- The Culture of Irony, Part 2: The limitations of treating art as a form of rhetoric instead of as a form of truth—the example of Cassavetes
- Art as a way of knowing—the example of Thomas Eakins
- An interview with Ray Carney about the limitations of Cultural Studies understandings of art New!
- More about the limitations of Cultural Studies understandings of art—one more glance at David James's work
- Excerpts from two interviews with Ray Carney
- Two forms of cinematic modernism—idealist and pragmatic
- The difference between visionary and pragmatic forms of expression in the work of Mike Leigh
- Art and Abstraction—nonconceptual, nonintellectual relations to experience—the limits of metaphoric forms of knowledge New!
- Art as experience—the limitations of viewing art as a form of knowledge New!
- Information about Ray Carney's writing on American film, thought, and culture
- Speaking the language of the soul—Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc
- Excerpts from Ray Carney's Speaking
the Language of Desire—The Films of Carl Dreyer
- A parable for critics—Carl Dreyer's Day of Wrath, an excerpt from Ray Carney's Speaking the Language of Desire
- Thinking in space and time—Carl Dreyer's Ordet, an excerpt from Ray Carney's Speaking the Language of Desire
- A world elsewhere—Carl Dreyer's Gertrud, an excerpt from Ray Carney's Speaking the Language of Desire
- Reviews and responses to Ray Carney's Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (Cambridge University Press)
- To obtain an essay on The Passion of Joan of Arc and buy Ray Carney's Speaking the Language of Desire
- Excerpts from Ray Carney's American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra
- The limitations of Cultural Studies approaches to Frank Capra's work—the introduction to Ray Carney's American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra
- Frank Capra and Norman Rockwell—all the difference in the world—a memorial essay written when Capra died
- Reviews and responses to Ray Carney's American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra
- How to obtain Ray Carney's American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra
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