The French New Wave: An Artistic School is a lively introduction to this critical moment in film history by one of the world's leading scholars on the New Wave.
* Provides a concise account of the French New Wave by one of the world's leading film scholars.
* Outlines the essential traits of the New Wave and defines it as a school that changed international film history forever.
* Includes a chronology of major political and cultural events of the New Wave, black-and-white images, and an extensive bibliography.
Michel Marie
Cultural Studies Film Studies Filmforschung Kulturwissenschaften
'Michel Marie, legendary cinephile and scholar of French cinema,has fashioned a three-dimensional map of the New Wave'School', providing its genesis and morphology aswell. The table of contents alone is full of important ideas andpromising directions. Yet within this brilliant organizationoperates the eye and the sensibility of someone who is intimatewith these intimate films. What a vast film-culture subtends thistidy study.' Dudley Andrew, Yale University
'In Richard Neupert's extremely readable translation, MichelMarie's French New Wave is just what the directors ordered- a rat-a-tat-tat new look at the Nouvelle Vague that isfresh and irreverent. Michel Poiccard/Jean-Paul Belmondo would haveloved it.' Rick Altman, University of Iowa
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