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	UPNE \| American Vision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In this daring and unorthodox study, Ray Carney places the work of Frank Capra in the great tradition of American transcendentalism -- along with paintings by Homer, Eakins, Sargent, and Hopper and the writings of Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, and William and Henry James, among others.
		Carney speaks with freshness, clarity, and an absence of theoretical claptrap.
		RAY CARNEY is Professor of Film and American Studies at Boston University.
	www.upne.com /0-8195-6301-3.html (496 words)

	Organica News -- Film: Ray Carney on the Best Movies You've Never Heard Of
		I first discovered Ray Carney through his remarkable writings on the films of John Cassavetes and Mike Leigh, two filmmakers on whose work he is perhaps the foremost living authority.
		Carney's most recent work, Cassavetes on Cassavetes (Faber and Faber, 2001), is described as the autobiography Cassavetes never lived to write, an appraisal and overview of the films, combining Carney's own commentary with interviews with the late director and photographs of the making of the films.
		Carney is uncompromising in his belief in art as a difficult, elevated path, and in his rejection of the relativistic standards of popular cultural studies and ideological and formalist criticism alike—all approaches that elevate lesser works.
	www.organicanews.com /news/article.cfm?story_id=190 (2660 words)

	Meet John Cassavetes
		Carney calls Cassavetes a spiritual filmmaker and that term makes sense once it is understood that Cassavetes was creating a cinema where human life was portrayed in all its ambiguity, beauty and ugliness.
		For Carney the term is also increasingly meaningless because of the recent rise of American indie cinema which often functions as an adjunct to Hollywood itself, where budgets are low and the opportunity for subversion is greater, but ultimately where the genre conventions and more importantly the characterisations are fundamentally the same.
		Ray Carney's work on Cassavetes is passionate and an exemplary case of what the best criticism can do: he has ensured that work too long ignored and marginalised has been given renewed life.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/books/01/16/cassavetes_meet.html (2957 words)

	CINEASTE
		Ray Carney as editor and commentator conveys the first two of these incidents in Cassavetes on Cassavetes, but he's less forthcoming about what he thinks of this behavior than he is about Kael's shortcomings as a reviewer of Cassavetes films.
		Carney lists Charles Durning as one of the actors in this production–a fact contradicted by both my memory and the play's program, which I've saved–and notes in passing that "the work played to standing-room only audiences every night," which is also untrue insofar as standing-room audiences weren't permitted in the small auditorium.
		Carney as editor of Cassavetes's accounts of himself and Carney as a critic of Cassavetes are obviously not the same thing, and sometimes the differences are telling.
	www.cineaste.com /cass.htm (2411 words)

	Selected Program Notes for the Beat Screening List (Excerpts) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ray Carney is Professor of Film and American Studies at Boston University and teaches courses on the relation of various forms of American artistic expression.
		Ray mounts a powerful critique of the social and emotional dysfunctionality of the American family, and, specifically, of the failure of the married-to-his-job father to provide a role model for his son to emulate.
		Ray suspends his three figures at the same in-between imaginative and tonal place the Beats themselves occupied: between hope and despair, fear and idealism, flight and homecoming, comedy and tragedy, clumsiness and grace.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/Carney.html (8230 words)

	Interview with Ray Carney Film Critic who Sheds Light on Filmmaker John Cassavetes, 11/01
		Ray Carney's book "Cassavetes on Cassavetes" is available for purchase through Amazon.com.
		Ray Carney is well known for his attacks on the Hollywood filmmaking establishment, and the journalists, critics, and film professors who, in his view, support it "by conducting sycophantic interviews with airhead movie stars, inviting celebrity directors into the classroom, and generally functioning as unpaid publicists for every studio blockbuster that comes along."
		Carney: If you don’t toss and turn in your sleep and change your mind a trillion times while you’re working on a project like this, you aren’t alive.
	www.newenglandfilm.com /news/archives/01november/carney.htm (2179 words)

	About Ray Carney: Career Overview
		Many of these facts were revealed to Carney by Cassavetes himself in a "Rosebud" conversation shortly before his death as well as through interviews with the actors and crew members of the various works in the final years of their lives.
		Carney has organized and presented the first public screenings of many of these works in recent years as well as screenings of other works by Cassavetes that have never been broadcast on television or released in theaters.
		Carney did the scholarly research for the film, located unknown documentary material used in it, and wrote the script for the voice-over commentary (impersonating the voice of John Cassavetes).
	people.bu.edu /rcarney/aboutrc/bio.shtml (2415 words)

	Shadows
		Carney takes the reader behind the scenes to follow every step in the making of the movie--chronicling the hopes and dreams, the struggles and frustrations, and the ultimate triumph of the collaboration that resulted in one of the seminal masterworks of American independent filmmaking.
		None of this information, which Carney spent more than five years compiling, has ever appeared in print before (and, as the presentation reveals, the few studies that have attempted to deal with this issue prior to this are proved to have been completely mistaken in their assumptions).
		Ray Carney is Professor of American Studies and Film at Boston University, and the author of, among many other publications, The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism and the Movies (1994).Ray Carney is Professor of Film and American Studies and Director of the undergraduate and graduate Film Studies programs at Boston University.
	ucpress.edu /books/bfi/pages/PROD0251.html (536 words)

	'I've felt like a prisoner'
		Police say Carney slashed the woman's tires, "keyed" the side of her car, and then scrawled "liar" on a note he left on the windshield.
		Carney's family warned the victim that he had a gun and planned to kill her and himself, the victim told the judge.
		She notes that Carney got 90 days of "straight time" in jail, which she characterized as a tough sentence that aimed to "de-escalate" the harassment and give the victim time to protect herself.
	web.dailycamera.com /extra/thelongwar/0203clint.shtml (577 words)

	Something Old, Nothing New: Who Criticizes the Critics?
		This post at 2 Blowhards quotes from an interview with Ray Carney, Boston University film professor, writer, and longtime lackey of John Cassavetes, the man who pioneered the aesthetic credo that movies should be just as boring as real life.
		Cassavetes' movies aren't (always) boring, and Carney is an interesting writer sometimes, and as Jonathan Rosenbaum points out, he's done good work in praising the work of filmmakers whose work never went Big Media.
		That's true of Ray Carney, it was sometimes true of B.H. Haggin, and it's frequently true of Harry Knowles.
	zvbxrpl.blogspot.com /2005/02/who-criticizes-critics.html (798 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Cassavetes on Cassavetes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ray Carney's done a great service to film fans by bringing Cassavetes' scattered talks and interviews together into a coherent statement on art.
		Carney neither fawns over Cassavetes (as he sometimes has done in the past), nor does he paint an unqualified portrait of a dark, tortured soul (as most artist biographies tend to do).
		Instead, Carney gives us insight into a new type of artistic genius, one whose life may not have been rife with passionate love affairs and bouts of madness, but was nevertheless rich and intense.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571201571 (1131 words)

	Imperfection
		Ray Carney has been keeper of the Cassavetes flame in the American academy.
		Carney comes from a training in American studies, a field founded on that Emersonian tradition Mabel is said to embody.
		Ray Carney, ed., Cassavetes on Cassavetes (London: Faber and Faber, 2001), p.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/books/01/16/cassavetes_imperfection.html (3270 words)

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		THE BEST APPRECIATION of John Cassavetes' films was scholar Ray Carney's description, "We [usually] watch how the frame is composed, how a character is lighted, how the camera moves or doesn't move, etc. Cassavetes' work cultivates different ways of seeing and hearing.
		Carney's devotion is borne out by this DVD collection (unaccountably without Carney's commentary) of Cassavetes' best-known films.
		It was Cassavetes who made a virtue of improvisation in film, taking the next step after the Method's 50s triumph by bringing a realistic delving into emotion to the big screen representation of common, "undramatized" life.
	www.nypress.com /17/44/dvds/ArmondWhite.cfm (436 words)

	Notherby's :: Opening Night
		Carney has amazing behind-the-scenes information about how Cassavetes created all of his no-budget wonders completely outside the system.
		Carney knew Cassavetes and had a series of conversations with him before his death about his philosophy of life and art.
		Cassavetes has a small role as her self-contained costar, keeping to himself until forced to deal with her onstage in a finale that is either an inspired ad-lib or the loopiest climax to a Broadway drama ever written.
	www.northerbys.com /store/index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=B00000I1L2 (790 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Cassavetes on Cassavetes
		Instead, Carney does his valiant best to set the record straight, while the reader is often left to guess when Cassavetes is improvising the facts.
		Carney tells us at the outset that he fixed deliberate falsehoods, but we're never sure what information remains untrue.
		Cassavetes is hardly the first artist not to live up to his folklore, but it seems like Carney, already the author of two books about Cassavetes and a monograph on "Shadows," misses the real story here: that Cassavetes was less an outsider against the establishment than a rebel without a cause.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117798593?categoryID=1010 (893 words)

	.: Print Version :.
		The Rev. Carney was preceded in death by his wife, Ruby A. Carney, in 2002.
		He is survived by his son, David Ray Carney of Riverside; daughter Charlene Hassett of Fallbrook; eight grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
		She is survived by her husband, Ken Davis of Oceanside; daughters Barbara Carney of Columbus, Ohio, Patricia Holstein of Dallas, Texas, Dixie Bertucci of Biloxi, Miss., Nancy Schiffer of Poway, Calif., and Connie Thomason of Lucere Valley, Calif.; 14 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2003/03/21/export6295.prt (1862 words)

	News-Star OnlineRay Evan Carney 12/21/02
		Ray Evan Carney, 80, of Chandler died Thursday.
		at the Lawson Cemetery in Yale with the Rev. Dale Carney, the Rev. Joe Rhodes and the Rev. Roland Tidwell officiating.
		Memorials may be made to the Forest Baptist Church Building Fund in care of Dale Carney, 362 Marshall Drive, Chandler, OK 74834.
	www.news-star.com /stories/122102/obi_43.shtml (71 words)

	ÿ: Carney on Woody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Even in his prime, my hero of the moment, Ray Carney has argued (I think successfully), his films represent his hermetically sealed nature - his fear of delving into the deep, dark unknown.
		My friend D said he'd elaborate on his dislike for Carney, then told me he wouldn't bother, which is too bad.
		So Carney initiates some terminology drift, so that 'independent' means some nonsense about independence of the soul, so he can exclude all the indie movies he hates from the category and bestow the indie crown on Cassy's head.
	www.sankey.ca /y/001350.html (1959 words)

	Film and Fiction Fusion
		Carney: American film reviewing is a form of advertising and advertisements are never political for fear someone might disagree with them.
		Carney: All that matters is that they tell their own personal truths.
		Carney: I've written so much about the "guidepost" issue and devoted so many classes to it, that I'll skip it if you don't mind and refer anyone interested in it to my writing.
	webdelsol.com /SolPix/sp-rayinter01a.htm (5202 words)

	GreenCine Daily: Cassavetes: Boxes and Shadows
		Unlike many, Carney pursued the lost original with a dedication some would regard as admirable (others as so extreme as to border on the creepy) and, after a 17-year quest, thanks to equal parts perseverance and luck, Carney actually found it.
		In a Postscript to Carney's retelling of the tale of his discovery on his own site, he paints a portrait of an angry and stubborn Rowlands refusing to acknowledge not only his writing on Cassavetes but also even the existence of any alternate versions of any of the director's films.
		Carney spent eight months preparing an essay and audio commentary for Criterion's box set, but Rowlands put Criterion on the spot, as the company president, Peter Becker's made clear in a letter Carney's posted on his site.
	daily.greencine.com /archives/000429.html (947 words)

	Daily Telegraph (London, England): Ordinary lives, extraordinary films; John Cassavetes's movies, ridiculed on their ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Daily Telegraph (London, England): Ordinary lives, extraordinary films; John Cassavetes's movies, ridiculed on their release, now have a profound influence on film-makers.
		Ray Carney explains why.(Art and Books)@ HighBeam Research
		Ordinary lives, extraordinary films; John Cassavetes's movies, ridiculed on their release, now have a profound influence on film-makers.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:70800079&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (251 words)

	Books \| The searcher
		At the beginning of Citizen Kane, the dying Charles Foster Kane whispers the word "Rosebud", and a reporter scurries about for a few days and pieces together his entire biography from the two syllables.
		Though I had had no idea that the clock was ticking while I was engaged in my search, I realised some time after I found the print that this was probably the last chance to find it for all eternity.
		· Ray Carney is Professor of Film and American Studies and Director of Film Studies at Boston University.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4862654-110738,00.html (2451 words)

	News & Events - News Releases
		While searching for the “Shadows” original, Professor Carney coincidently discovered in the Library of Congress archives a never-released alternative version of Cassavetes’ breakthrough 1968 film “Faces” which was 18 minutes longer than the distributed version.
		Professor Carney’s most recent book, the monumental 550-page “Cassavetes on Cassavetes” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001), based on conversations with the filmmaker in the final decades of his life, was praised by film critic Roger Ebert as “a labor of love, scholarship, and detective work.
		From a chaotic mountain of primary and secondary sources, Ray Carney has shaped the story of John Cassavetes’ life and work — using the words of the great director himself, and also calling on his colleagues and friends to supply their memories and revelations.
	www.bu.edu /phpbin/news/releases/display.php?id=648 (661 words)

	Amazon.com: The Films of John Cassavetes : Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies (Cambridge Film Classics): Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Carney started with warhorses like Hitchcock's "Psycho" and made the roomful of us (vocally) do exercises during the screening that exposed the highly polished but rather ridiculously superficial artifice of the "classic film".
		Carney loves film just like we all do, however he had recognized something that we (and, most likely, you, too) had not, that film can be so much more than anything we had imagined (or yet been exposed to).
		Carney doesn't analyse Cassavetes' work in relation to other movies and cultural trends (as most film professors tend to do), but prefers to focus entirely on the performances of the characters on screen.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521388155?v=glance (1933 words)

	Gadfly Online.
		It was not about telling a hyped-up dramatic story to take people away from their lives, but a way of asking deep, probing questions about the world in which he lived and of asking viewers to explore the meaning of their experiences.
		Ray Carney, the world’s leading authority on Cassavetes’ life and work, plumbs the depths of Cassavetes’ soul, presenting both a spiritual portrait of the artist and a soul-searching meditation on Cassavetes’ more than half-doomed attempt to create works of art in a commercial medium like film.
		Carney, who spent eleven years assembling and editing the text, says his goal was to "get beyond the press release version" of Cassavetes’ life.
	www.gadflyonline.com /9-2-01/book-cassavetes.HTML (1553 words)

	Amazon.com: Cassavetes on Cassavetes: Books: John Cassavetes,Ray Carney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ray Carney's "Cassavetes on Cassavetes" is a wonderful introduction to Cassavetes' work.
		Well, Ray Carney has done it again: years of research have culminated in a wonderful examination of Cassavetes, by Cassavetes: his life and work.
		Carney's take on the important independent filmmaker - his mischief, guts, growth, and ups and downs - are to me, an inspiration.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0571201571?v=glance (2246 words)

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		GROUP MEETING GN00-02 January 8, 2000 To: Carney, Hartwell, LaJohn, Pomponiu There will be a group meeting WEDNESDAY January 12, 12:15 pm, 101AH.
		512 "On the dependence of photon-atom scattering on energy resolution and target angular momentum", J. Carney, R. Pratt, N. Manakov, and A. Meremianin, accepted for Phys.
		Scripta 59, 113 (99) Kornberg f Avdonina "Mirroring behavior of partial photodetachment and photoionization cross sections in the neighborhood of a resonance", PRA 59, R1731 (Mar 99) Liu & Starace g Carney "Resonant x-ray Raman scattering", Phys.Rpt.
	stribor.phyast.pitt.edu /NOTICES/GN2000-02.text (482 words)

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