The films of John Cassavetes : embracing the world
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.
Print Book, English, 1994
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994
322 pages : illustrations
9780521381192, 9780521388153, 0521381193, 0521388155
1131515335
Acknowledgments; Introduction: thinking in space, time and the body; 1. Selves in the making (Shadows); 2. Noncontemplative art (Faces); 3. Beating the system (Minnie and Moskowitz); 4. An artist of the ordinary (A Woman Under the Influence); 5. The path of greatest resistance (The Killing of a Chinese Bookie); 6. Compositions and decompositions (Love Streams); Epilogue: The religion of doing; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index.