A History of the French New Wave Cinema
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A History of the French New Wave Cinema

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A History of the French New Wave Cinema

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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 Cinema offers 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 Godard—who really revealed that filmmaking was changing forever. Later, their cohorts Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Pierre Kast continued in their own unique ways to expand the range and depth of the New Wave.In an exciting new chapter, Neupert explores the subgroup of French film practice known as the Left Bank Group, which included directors such as Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda. With the addition of this new material and an updated conclusion, Neupert presents a comprehensive review of the stunning variety of movies to come out of this important era in filmmaking.

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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780299217037
Topic
Médias et arts de la scène
Subtopic
Arts de la scène

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 Cultural Contexts: Where Did the Wave Begin?
  6. 2 Testing the Water: Alexandre Astruc, Agnès Varda, and Jean-Pierre Melville
  7. 3 New Stories, New Sex: Roger Vadim and Louis Malle
  8. 4 Claude Chabrol: Launching a Wave
  9. 5 François Truffaut: The New Wave’s Ringleader
  10. 6 Jean-Luc Godard: Le Petit Soldat
  11. 7 The Cahiers du cinéma Cohort: Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Pierre Kast
  12. 8 On the New Wave’s Left Bank: Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda
  13. Conclusion: A Network of Carrier Waves
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index