American Independent Director John Cassavets Film Research

The Venice Film Festival Jury Award,opened the prelude of American independent films.Set screenwriter,director,actor in a movie author John Cassavetes and long-term fixed team cooperation and adhere to independent production,most of the funds from the mortgage and make as an actor,its highly recognizable style of works including improvisation hand,photography,sheet structure loose,free jazz like editing techniques,movie theme from real life and on the same theme.Roger Hubert said,“John Cassavetes was one of the few who have very personal characteristics of the lens,one of the scenes,dialogue and the role of the modern director,see a movie of his,just a few seconds you can recognize who is the director,as Hitchcock and Fellini’s works as determined”.This paper will take the theory as the main research methods,Andre Bazin’s Realism Aesthetics--the art of film is based on true nature,try to study the realistic Cassavetes in the world of films,in recognition of its“auteur”identity and the film aesthetic value at the same time,to investigate the John Cassavetes potential and social function of film Enlightenment of the development of Chinese independent film.The introduction includes three parts: the research origin and significance,research,basic concepts and methods.The first part is from the film history,Film Aesthetics Conception,certainly John Cassavetes“author” identity and film research value;the second part of the domestic and foreign research status of the movie John Cassavetes sums up the analysis.Its shortcomings and put forward their own research ideas and methods;the third part is the basic theory of careful combing ideas and research methods,so as to develop the ideas.The first chapter combing with the analysis of the whole John Cassavetes “family”independent film.The first section from the United States after World War II the social environment and the environment influence and restrict the movie Cassavetes movie creation conditions;the second section is to time clues on the whole card Savitz film creation for introduction;section third investigation in the“family”Cassavetes movie creation in role-playing,special pure recognition of its “auteur”identity and “handmade” family production.The second chapter of the text analysis as the main research methods,from the connotation of the theme,narrative features three aspects of narrative structure and characters of John Cassavetes movie,Andre Bazin’s realism aesthetics of realistic Cassavetes in the world of films.The first section mainly based on 《shadows》《Faces》 as an example,study the movie “love and love” theme connotation;episodic narrative structure of the second section in a loose state Cassavetes movie,“analysis of the characters emotions as the leading motivation to advance the plot” and “open ending of the film.” the realistic characters of anti type third section on Cassavetes movie,The female image is positive,crazy,hysterical or negative,awkward,male image rude,deeply reflect the mixed state and individual self seeking process,by Cassavetes into the role of the way to show the situation of human life and emotion.In the third chapter of text analysis and comparative research as the main research method,investigation and analysis of John Cassavetes movie art style.The first section from the perspective of theory,combined with the text analysis pointed out the significance and characteristics of the core of aesthetics “handheld photography and improvisation”,and the effects of huge energy through the body characters convey Cassavetes movie on Jill Deleuze’s “body film” concept.The second section from the picture framing and camera motion analysis to film and Cassavetes palmmirror mirror,including close-up character analysis and camera shifts;the third section of the music in the film of Cassavetes.To analyze its originality,Embeddedness and the artistic features of Intertextuality.The fourth chapter in cultural studies as the main method of“independent film” father,film writer,film artist John Cassavetes movie and its aesthetic value and historical significance.The first section through combing the development context of American independent film and combining the essence of “independent spirit”,to explore the huge transfer of Cassavetes movie “independent spirit”;the development of Chinese with second independent film festival,explore the creation inspiration on the current independent film Chinese Cassavetes movie development.