Accidental genius
Subtitle: how John Cassavetes invented American independent film
By: by Marshall Fine
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Miramax Books/Hyperion
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9781401352493; 9781401360139
Subjects: Filmindustrie; Independent filmmakers; Filmkunst; Motion picture producers and directors; Films; Motion picture actors and actresses; Biography
Description: Among filmmakers and film buffs, Cassavetes is revered. A major star of live television in the 1950s, he stumbled accidentally into making his first film, Shadows, while leading an acting workshop--and created a template for working outside the system that would produce some of the most piercing and human films of the next thirty years, including Faces, Husbands, and A woman under the influence. Turning his back on Hollywood, he became the prototypical outsider, fighting the system, financing and ultimately distributing his films himself, at a time when there was no apparatus to get a non-studio film into theaters around the country. His life and work are examined in this biography, with cooperation from his wife and muse Gena Rowlands and others of this inner circle, to reveal just how daring and forward-thinking he was.--From publisher description.
Notes: Filmography: p. [435]-442.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-482).
Table of contents: title: 1; title: A New York Street Kid -- 3 -- 2; title: Through College -- 9 -- 3; title: AADA -- 18 -- 4; title: Gena -- 25 -- 5; title: Post-AADA -- 30 -- 6; title: Sam Shaw -- 37 -- 7; title: "Paso Doble" -- 42 -- 7; title: TV Star -- 48 -- 9; title: Movie Star -- 54 -- 10; title: The Next Level -- 61 -- 11; title: The Workshop -- 69 -- 12; title: Origins of Shadows -- 74 -- 13; title: Shadows -- 81 -- 14; title: Shooting Shadows -- 89 -- 15; title: Going Public -- 97 -- 16; title: Beat, Square, and Cool -- 101 -- 17; title: Johnny Staccato and Back to the Shadows -- 112 -- 18; title: Shadows-A Postscript -- 125 -- 19; title: Too Late Blues -- 129 -- 20; title: A Child Is Waiting -- 137 -- 21; title: In Limbo -- 145 -- 22; title: Faces -- 151 -- 23; title: Faces 2 -- 156 -- 24; title: Dirty Dozen and Rosemary's Baby -- 168 -- 25; title: Faces 3 -- 176 -- 26; title: Pre-Husbands -- 187 -- 27; title: Husbands -- 202 -- 28; title: Husbands 2 -- 207 -- 29; title: Husbands 3 -- 226 -- 30; title: A Leg Up -- 243 -- 31; title: Minnie and Moskowitz -- 253 -- 32; title: Minnie and Moskowitz 2 -- 262 -- 33; title: A Woman Under the Influence -- 274 -- 34; title: A Woman Under the Influence 2 -- 281 -- 35; title: A Woman Under the Influence 3 -- 285 -- 36; title: A Woman Under the Influence 4 -- 297 -- 37; title: John and Gena -- 308 -- 38; title: Mikey & Nicky -- 314 -- 39; title: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie -- 319 -- 40; title: Bookie 2 -- 329 -- 41; title: Opening Night -- 336 -- 42; title: Opening Night 2 -- 345 -- 43; title: Approach of the '80s -- 351 -- 44; title: Gloria -- 359 -- 45; title: Retrospective Tempest -- 375 -- 46; title: Love Streams on Stage -- 384 -- 47; title: Love Streams on Screen -- 397 -- 48; title: Big Trouble -- 416 -- 49; title: Valedictory-- 420.