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A history of the French new wave cinema
- Title
- A history of the French new wave cinema / Richard Neupert.
- Author
- Neupert, Richard John.
- Publication
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN1993.5.F7 N48 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxix, 342 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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. The French New Wave cinema is arguably the most fascinating of all film movements, famous for its exuberance, daring, and avant-garde techniques.
- Series Statement
- Wisconsin studies in film
- Uniform Title
- Wisconsin studies in film.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-329) and index.
- Contents
- Cultural contexts: where did the wave begin? -- Testing the water: Alexandre Astruc, Agnès 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 cinéma cohort: Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Pierre Kast.
- ISBN
- 029918160X
- 9780299181604
- 0299181642
- 9780299181642
- LCCN
- 2002002305
- 9780299181642
- OCLC
- ocm49002023
- 49002023
- SCSB-14252793
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library