Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION. ACROSS THE SPECTRUM: FROM IMPROVISATION TO PSYCHODRAMA 1
5. 1. AND I HATE ACTORS: THE NEW AMERICAN CINEMA 23
6. 2. LET’S NOT PHONY IT UP ANYMORE: THE FILMS OF JOHN CASSAVETES 47
7. 3. PLACE-BASED REALISM: MACKENZIE, LODEN, AND BURNETT 70
8. 4. EXPERIMENTS IN PSYCHODRAMA: MEKAS, WARHOL, CLARKE, AND MAILER 95
9. 5. HUMAN LIFE ISN’T NECESSARILY WELL-WRITTEN: WILLIAM GREAVES’S SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE AND TAKE 2½ 119
10. 6. BEYOND THE METHOD: ABEL FERRARA AND HARVEY KEITEL 144
11. 7. TIED TO A MACHINE: THE FILMS OF GUS VAN SANT 164
12. 8. I LIKE HOW YOU TALK: THE FILMS OF JOE SWANBERG 187
13. 9. IMPROVISATION AND PLACE: PUTTY HILL, STAND CLEAR OF THE CLOSING DOORS, AND THE FILMS OF SEAN BAKER 211
14. 10. REDISCOVERING PSYCHODRAMA: FROWNLAND, HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT, AND STINKING HEAVEN 234
15. 11. THE LINE BETWEEN REALITY AND STAGING: ACTOR MARTINEZ, ACTRESS, AND THE WITNESS 260
16. CONCLUSION: BLENDING FICTION AND DOCUMENTARY 281
17. NOTES 293
18. BIBLIOGRAPHY 319
19. INDEX 323