The Films of John Cassavetes : Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies download book
The Films of John Cassavetes : Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies download book
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Author: Ray Carney
Number of Pages: 336 pages
Published Date: 01 Nov 2005
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication Country: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9780521388153
File size: 24 Mb
Download Link: The Films of John Cassavetes Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies
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The first book to tell in detail the story of a maverick filmmaker who worked outside the studio system. Providing extended critical discussion on six of his most important films (Shadows, Faces, Minnie and Moskowitz, A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and Love Streams), Ray Carney argues that Cassavetes' work is a distinctly life-affirming form of modernist expression that is at odds with the world-denying modernism of many of the most important art works produced in this century. Cassavetes is revealed to be a profoundly thoughtful and self-aware filmmaker and a deeply philosophical thinker, whose work takes its place in the American tradition along with the writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James. The six films treated here emerge as expressive interpretations of the bewildering challenges in contemporary American cultural experience.
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The Films of John Cassavetes : Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies by Ray Carney
Author: Ray Carney
Number of Pages: 336 pages
Published Date: 01 Nov 2005
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication Country: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9780521388153
File size: 24 Mb
Download Link: The Films of John Cassavetes Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies
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The first book to tell in detail the story of a maverick filmmaker who worked outside the studio system. Providing extended critical discussion on six of his most important films (Shadows, Faces, Minnie and Moskowitz, A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and Love Streams), Ray Carney argues that Cassavetes' work is a distinctly life-affirming form of modernist expression that is at odds with the world-denying modernism of many of the most important art works produced in this century. Cassavetes is revealed to be a profoundly thoughtful and self-aware filmmaker and a deeply philosophical thinker, whose work takes its place in the American tradition along with the writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James. The six films treated here emerge as expressive interpretations of the bewildering challenges in contemporary American cultural experience.
Read online The Films of John Cassavetes : Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies Buy and read online The Films of John Cassavetes : Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies Download The Films of John Cassavetes : Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook The Films of John Cassavetes : Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies