Echoes of John Cassavetes’s cinema. Response to the american director’s films in Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine and Anja Breien’s Wives Cover Image

Echa filmów Johna Cassavatesa. Odpowiedź na kino amerykańskiego reżysera w Blue Valentine Dereka Cianfrance'a i Żonach Anji Breien
Echoes of John Cassavetes’s cinema. Response to the american director’s films in Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine and Anja Breien’s Wives

Author(s): Paula Szmidt
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Media studies, Communication studies, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: popular culture; film; Cassavetes; inspiration; Cianfrance; Breien

Summary/Abstract: The study is an attempt to find traces of work by John Cassavetes – one of the most important American independent film directors – in Der­ek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine and Anja Brei­een’s Wives. Derek Cianfrance and Anja Breien openly refer to the American director’s works in their films. Breien’s Wives is a response to John Cassavetes’s Husbands. The focus of this study is mainly the inspirations drawn from Cassavetes’s films visible in the storylines of Blue Valentine and Wives. This article presents the content of the films inspired by Cassavetes’s productions and analyses the scenes that refer to his films.

  • Issue Year: 36/2013
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 54-69
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish