The Films of John Cassavetes

Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies

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by Raymond Carney

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published March 1994, 307 pages, paper

ISBN 0521388155

Extended critical discussion of 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) reveals a profoundly thoughtful and self-aware filmmaker/philosopher in the American tradition of Emerson and William James.