A Book on the Making of Shadows

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.

• Press Release — "A masterpiece of improvisation?"
• Excerpts from Ray Carney's book on the making of Shadows
  • Fake Improvisation
  • Acting as Playing
  • Autobiographical Film-making
  • Fake Locations
  • Radical Individualism
  • A Democratic Narrative
  • Non-ideological Understanding
• 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
• Ray Carney's personal account of his 17-year quest to find the first version of Shadows
• 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
• Two interviews with Ray Carney about Rowlands's attempts to suppress the Shadows print, censor his work, and control what Carney says and writes
  • Interview with George Hunka
  • Interview with Shelley Friedman
• 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

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