Where Does It Happen : John Cassavetes And Cinema At The Breaking Point - George Kouvaros

Where Does It Happen

John Cassavetes And Cinema At The Breaking Point

By: George Kouvaros

Paperback | 10 March 2004

At a Glance

Paperback


$41.95

or 4 interest-free payments of $10.49 with

 or 

Aims to ship in 10 to 15 business days

When will this arrive by?
Enter delivery postcode to estimate

"A good movie," John Cassavetes has remarked, "will ask you questions you don't already know the answers to." And in his films, Cassavetes is as good as his word. Taking up the radical question that Cassavetes' films consistently pose-specifically, where is the line between actor and character, fiction and reality, film and life?-George Kouvaros reveals the unique, and uniquely illuminating, position that Cassavetes' work occupies at the intersection of filmmaking and film theory.

Central to any understanding of Cassavetes' achievement is the issue of performance. Looking at the work of Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, and Cassavetes himself in films such as Faces, A Woman under the Influence, and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Kouvaros shows how performative instances-gestures, words, or glances-open up intimations of dramas belonging neither strictly to these films nor to the everyday worlds in which they are immersed.

A major reassessment of the filmmaker as a formal experimenter, Where Does It Happen? gives Cassavetes his due as a filmmaker whose critical place in the modern cinema is only now becoming clear.

George Kouvaros is senior lecturer in the School of Theatre, Film, and Dance at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

More in Individual Film Directors

Kiki's Delivery Service Film Comic : All-in-One Edition - Hayao Miyazaki
Accidentally Wes Anderson : The viral sensation - Wally Koval

RRP $69.99

$47.25

32%
OFF
The Art of Princess Mononoke : A Film by Hayao Miyazaki - Hayao Miyazaki
Eames : Basic Arts Series - Gloria Koenig

RRP $39.99

$37.95

Lloyd Kaufman : Interviews - Mathew Klickstein

RRP $73.39

$66.75

North Is The Night : The Tuonela Duet : Book 1 - Emily Rath
The Legend of Mad Max - Ian Nathan

RRP $50.00

$38.75

22%
OFF
Hayao Miyazaki - Jessica Niebel

$85.25

The Art and Soul of Dune - Tanya Lapointe

RRP $89.99

$61.90

31%
OFF
The Art of Castle in the Sky : The Art of Castle in the Sky - Hayao Miyazaki
Wes Anderson : The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work - Ian Nathan

RRP $59.99

$45.25

25%
OFF
Jurassic Park : The Ultimate Visual History - James Mottram

RRP $99.00

$63.90

35%
OFF
Tim Burton : The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work - Ian Nathan

RRP $59.99

$45.25

25%
OFF
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining - J. W. Rinzler

RRP $305.00

$265.50

13%
OFF
The Star Wars Archives. 1999-2005. 45th Ed. : 40th Edition - Paul Duncan
Clint Eastwood : A Retrospective

RRP $59.99

$41.25

31%
OFF
Tim Burton : Designing Worlds - Maria McLintock
The Art Of Porco Rosso : The Art of Porco Rosso - Hayao Miyazaki

RRP $50.00

$38.75

22%
OFF