A History of the French New Wave Cinema.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (441 pages)
- Wisconsin Studies in Film Series .
- Wisconsin Studies in Film Series .
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Cultural Contexts: Where Did the Wave Begin? -- 2 Testing the Water: Alexandre Astruc, Agnès Varda, and Jean-Pierre Melville -- 3 New Stories, New Sex: Roger Vadim and Louis Malle -- 4 Claude Chabrol: Launching a Wave -- 5 François Truffaut: The New Wave's Ringleader -- 6 Jean-Luc Godard: Le Petit Soldat -- 7 The Cahiers du cinéma Cohort: Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Pierre Kast -- 8 On the New Wave's Left Bank: Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda -- Conclusion: A Network of Carrier Waves -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Motion pictures-France-History-20th century. New wave films-France-History and criticism.