Other Books and Articles about Cassavetes

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 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
  • Cover / 1 (Intro) / 2 (Shadows/Too Late Blues) / 3 (A Child is Waiting/Faces/Husbands) / 4 (Minnie & Moskowitz/A Woman Under the Influence/The Killing of a Chinese Bookie) / 5 (Opening Night/Gloria/Love Streams) / 6 (Closing) / 7 (Credits)
• The program written by Ray Carney for the 1997 four-city Miramax retrospective of Cassavetes' films
  • 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
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