Carney, Raymond

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CARNEY, Raymond

CARNEY, Raymond. American, b. 1947. Genres: Film. Career: Stanford University, asst. professor; Boston University, professor; Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, assistant professor of literature and film, beginning in 1978. Harvard Schools and Scholarship Committee, chairman, 1980-; consultant to Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art. Publications: (ed. and author of introduction) Henry James, The Spoils of Poynton and What Maisie Knew, 1985; (ed. and author of introduction) Rudyard Kipling, Kim, 1985; American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra and the Transcendental Impulse, 1986; (ed., illustrator, and author of introduction) Henry Adams, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, 1986; Speaking the Language of Desire, 1989; General editor, The Cambridge Film Classics, 25 volumes, 1989-93; The Films of John Cassavetes. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor to periodicals. Address: Boston University, Film and American Studies, College of Communication, 640 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A.