the characters actually say and do, and the tonal shifts that accompany these actions. Controversy He feuded with Gena Rowlands over his discovery of the first cut of the 1958 film Shadows claiming to be his own and not of Faces International. In May 2012, Mark Rappaport filed a lawsuit against Carney for refusing to give back more than two dozen film reels, 16 videotapes, 14 scripts, and papers including rough drafts of Rappaport’s movies which the filmmaker had previously entrusted to Carney to transport to Paris. Carney, however, has maintained that Rappaport actually gave him the items as gifts and is now engaging in cyberbullying against him. No written agreement was signed when the material was shipped to Carney. The suit was dropped in September of that same year, due to rising legal costs, although Rappaport later started an online petition demanding that Carney return the items. Works Carney met Cassavetes during the last years of the director’s life, and was the first American scholar to write books on the director. In 2003, Carney’s research led to the discovery of the first version of Cassavetes’s seminal work Shadows. Besides his work on John Cassavetes, Carney has written on Carl Theodor Dreyer, Frank Capra, and Mike Leigh. He has also written extensively on American literature (particularly the works of Henry James) and art (particularly painters such as Sargent and Hopper). Selected works Carney, Raymond Francis, Junior, American Dreaming: The Films of John Cassavetes and the American Experience, (Berkeley and Los Angeles, California and London: University of California Press, 1985). Carney, Raymond Francis, Junior, American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra, (Cambridge, London, New York and New Rochelle, New York, Oakleigh and Melbourne, Victoria, and Sydney, New South Wales: Cambridge University Press, 1986). Carney, Raymond Francis, Junior, Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer, Cambridge University Press, 1989 Carney, Raymond Francis, Junior, The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies, Cambridge University Press, 1994. Carney, Raymond Francis, Junior and Quart, Leonard, The Films of Mike Leigh: Embracing the World, Cambridge University Press, 2000. Carney, Raymond Francis, Junior, (Editor), Cassavetes on Cassavetes, Faber and Faber and Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001). Carney, Raymond Francis, Junior, Shadows, British Film Institute Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan, Indiana University Press, and University of California Press, 2001). References External links . . . . . 1947 births American film critics Boston University faculty