A history of the French new wave cinema [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Neupert

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456459603321
• Autore: Neupert Richard John
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2007
• ISBN: 1-282-59471-0; 9786612594717; 0-299-21703-5
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xxix, 408 p. : ill
• Collana: Wisconsin studies in film
• Disciplina: 791.43/611
• Soggetti: Motion pictures - France - History - 20th century; New wave films - France - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previous ed.: 2002.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-394) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- On the new wave's Left Bank : Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda.