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French New Wave

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French New Wave: Film Movement Study

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Example of French New Wave filming techniques

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UPCT - Cinema: The French New Wave, cinema from the 1960s

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Filming Techniques in French New Wave Cinema

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FRENCH NEW WAVE|FILM MOVEMENT|THE FILMMAKER

New Wave is often referred to as one of the most influential movements in the history of cinema. The term was first used by a group of French film critics and cinephiles associated with the magazine Cahiers du cinéma in the late 1950s and 1960s. Contempt for the Tradition de qualité, which dominated French film at the time, was the impetus that drove these young writers. This was apparent in a manifesto-like essay written by François Truffaut in 1953, Une certaine tendance du cinéma français, where he denounced the adaptation of safe literary works into unimaginative films, calling them le cinéma de papa.
  • Origins of the movement 

  • Film techniques 

  • Left Bank 

  • Influential names in the New Wave