Wednesday, 14 October 2020
AFM WEEK 6 NOTES
AFM
LECTURE 6 - French New
Wave
- Historical Overview
- The new wave was a rejection of Hollywood aesthetics
- Rejects cultural hegemony of the American film industry
- Emergence of existentialist though & critique of the state
- Outbreaks of rebellions in French colonies
- Emergence of the new wave (mid-1950s)
- Auteur theory: The film shows who made it depending on the filming style
-Les Quatres Cents Coups
-Film about a little boy that is caught by the
police
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, Wednesday, 14 October 2020
- Characters are repressed by the state institutions
- A Bout de Souffle
- Jump-cut shots
- Cleo de 5 a 7 (Agnes Varda)
- Cleo waiting for test results to find out if she has cancer
- Cleo stuck in the standardised expectations of women at the time
Darke - The French New Wave
- Introduction
• The ‘New Wave’ (la nouvelle vague) refers to a group of filmmakers who, between the
end of the 1950s and early to mid-1960s in France, momentarily transformed French
cinema and had a great impact on filmmakers throughout the world.
• Important Names: Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette,
Claude Chabrol, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker and Agnès Varda.
• Découpage: A term that means the ‘shot breakdown’ of a scene.
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• A number of successful films by other
directors followed, all of which enhanced the
identity of New Wave cinema as ‘youthful’
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AFM WEEK 6 NOTES
AFM
LECTURE 6 - French New
Wave
- Historical Overview
- The new wave was a rejection of Hollywood aesthetics
- Rejects cultural hegemony of the American film industry
- Emergence of existentialist though & critique of the state
- Outbreaks of rebellions in French colonies
- Emergence of the new wave (mid-1950s)
- Auteur theory: The film shows who made it depending on the filming style
-Les Quatres Cents Coups
-Film about a little boy that is caught by the
police
1
, Wednesday, 14 October 2020
- Characters are repressed by the state institutions
- A Bout de Souffle
- Jump-cut shots
- Cleo de 5 a 7 (Agnes Varda)
- Cleo waiting for test results to find out if she has cancer
- Cleo stuck in the standardised expectations of women at the time
Darke - The French New Wave
- Introduction
• The ‘New Wave’ (la nouvelle vague) refers to a group of filmmakers who, between the
end of the 1950s and early to mid-1960s in France, momentarily transformed French
cinema and had a great impact on filmmakers throughout the world.
• Important Names: Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette,
Claude Chabrol, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker and Agnès Varda.
• Découpage: A term that means the ‘shot breakdown’ of a scene.
-
-
-
-
-
• A number of successful films by other
directors followed, all of which enhanced the
identity of New Wave cinema as ‘youthful’
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