A History of the French New Wave Cinema

The French New Wave cinema is arguably the most fascinating of all filmmovements famous for its exuberance daring and avantgarde techniques. AHistory of the Fre... » 

The French New Wave cinema is arguably the most fascinating of all filmmovements famous for its exuberance daring and avantgarde techniques. AHistory of the French New Wave Cinema offers a fresh look at the socialeconomic and aesthetic mechanisms that shaped French film in the 1950s aswell as detailed studies of the most important New Wave movies of the late1950s and early 1960s.Richard Neupert first tracks the precursors to New Wave cinema showing howthey provided blueprints for those who would follow. He then demonstrates thatit was a core group of criticsturneddirectors from the magazine Cahiers duCinemaespecially Francois Truffaut Claude Chabrol and JeanLuc Godardwhoreally revealed that filmmaking was changing forever. Later their cohorts EricRohmer Jacques Rivette Jacques DoniolValcroze and Pierre Kast continued intheir own unique ways to expand the range and depth of the New Wave.In an exciting new chapter Neupert explores the subgroup of French filmpractice known as the Left Bank Group which included directors such as AlainResnais and Agnes Varda. With the addition of this new material and an updatedconclusion Neupert presents a comprehensive review of the stunning variety ofmovies to come out of this important era in filmmaking. «