History of the French New Wave Cinema

Name: History of the French New Wave Cinema
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ISBN: 9780299217044

ISBN-10: 0299217043

ISBN-13: 9780299217044

Edition: 2nd 2007

Authors: Richard Neupert

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The French New Wave cinema is arguably the most fascinating of all film movements, famous for its exuberance, daring, and avant-garde techniques.A History of the French New Wave Cinemaoffers a fresh look at the social, economic, and aesthetic mechanisms that shaped French film in the 1950s, as well as detailed studies of the most important New Wave movies of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Richard Neupert first tracks the precursors to New Wave cinema, showing how they provided blueprints for those who would follow. He then demonstrates that it was a core group of critics-turned-directors from the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma—especially François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, and Jean-Luc…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 2/19/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Cultural contexts : where did the wave begin?


Testing the water : Alexandre Astruc, Agnes Varda, and Jean-Pierre Melville


New stories, new sex : Roger Vadim and Louis Malle


Claude Chabrol : launching a wave


Francois Truffaut : the new wave's ringleader


Jean-Luc Godard : Le Petit Soldat


The Cahiers du cinema cohort : Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Pierre Kast


On the new wave's left bank : Alain Resnais and Agnes Varda


Conclusion : a network of carrier waves