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The Nouvelle Vague Film Movement (French New Wave)

Resources related to the Nouvelle Vague movement including films, styles, directors and actors, as well as artistic and socio-cultural influences.

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Ideological Figuration in Rohmer's First Two Moral Tales: 'Voice of Memory,' Clinamen of the Image, and Colonial Fantasies

Achille Castaldo. 2019, Studies in French Cinema Volume 19

APA Citation: Castaldo, Achille. (2019). Ideological Figuration in Rohmer’s First Two Moral Tales: 'Voice of Memory,' Clinamen of the Image, and Colonial Fantasies. Studies in French Cinema, 19(2), 85–102. https://doi.org/10.1080/14715880.2018.1511031

Achille Castaldo's Ideological Figuration focuses on a selection of films by Éric Rohmer from his Moral Tales series, analyzing their subject matter and the context of their creation through a post-colonial lens. This article is a resource for those who are interested in the relationship between post-colonialism in France and subsequent artistic response.

 

"La Nouvelle Vague, elle t'emm---!" Louis Malle, Zazie dans le métro and the French New Wave

Douglas Morrey. 2019, Modern & Contemporary France, Volume 27

APA Citation: Morrey, Douglas. (2019). “La Nouvelle Vague, elle t’emm---!” Louis Malle, Zazie dans le métro and the French New Wave. Modern & Contemporary France, 27(4), 493–503. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2019.1645650

Douglas Morrey’s “La Nouvelle Vague, elle t’emm---!” examines a lesser-known film from the French New Wave, Louis Malle’s Zazie dans le métro (1960), questioning its lack of popularity despite an abundance of cultural reference and innovative film techniques. Morrey’s article is a resource for those interested in less well known works of the movement, and / or the relationship of the French to their own New Wave corpus.

 

Narrative Mutations: French Cinema and its relations with literature from Vichy towards the New Wave

Colin Nettelbeck. 2007, Journal of European Studies, Volume 37

APA Citation: Nettelbeck, Colin. (2007). Narrative mutations: French cinema and its relations with literature from Vichy towards the New Wave. Journal of European Studies, 37(2), 159–186. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047244107077824

Colin Nettlebeck's Narrative Mutations examines and evaluates how the social and political environment of the period 1940-1958 in France influenced film and literature, and how these art forms evolved and related to one another. This paper is a resource for those interested in the intersectionality between the French, their history, politics, and how these elements combined to give birth to the New Wave movement.

 

Truffaut, Rivette, et la femme au portrait: Traces, fragments et survivances du dix-neuvième siècle

Anne-Gaëlle Saliot. 2014, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Volume 18

APA Citation: Saliot, Anne-Gaëlle. (2014). Truffaut, Rivette et la femme au portrait : Traces, fragments et survivances du dix-neuvième siècle. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 18(4), 395–406. https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2014.938502

Anne-Gaëlle Saliot's Truffaut, Rivette et la femme au portrait conducts a critical analysis of nineteenth-century art and literature as influences on the French New Wave, using two directors 'emblematic' of the movement, François Truffaut and Jacques Rivette, and their films La Chambre Vert (1978) and La Belle Noiseuse (1991). This article is a resource for those interested in the cultural and visual roots of the French New Wave movement.

A Gentle Complicity, An Endless ‘Duelle’

Kathy Vanhout. 2021, Photogénie Issue 9

APA Citation: Vanhout, Kathy. (2021). A Gentle Complicity, An Endless ‘Duelle.’ Photogénie Issue 9 Duras Rivette Irreducibilities. perma.cc/6UVL-NPM3

Kathy Vanhout's A Gentle Complicity analyzes the surreality of Jacques Rivette's work of 'mise en abyme,' Duelle (1976). This article is a resource for those interested in the cinematographic aspects of later Nouvelle Vague films.

The Parallel Lives of ‘Le Camion’ and ‘Histoire de Marie et Julien'

Ruairi McCann. 2021, Photogénie, Issue 9

APA Citation: McCann, Ruairí. (2021). The Parallel Lives of ‘Le Camion’ and ‘Histoire de Marie et Julien.’ Photogénie Issue 9 Duras Rivette Irreducibilities. perma.cc/9VAH-38HZ

Ruairi McCann's Parallel Lives examines the relationship between the works of writer Marguerite Duras and filmmaker Jacques Rivette through their films Le Camion (Duras, 1977) and Histoire de Marie et Julien (Rivette, 2003). This article is a resource for those interested in the collaborative relationships between the French New Wave directors and their contemporaries, and the overlap in their works.

Gang of Four, or the Film That Magically Materializes the Viewers Own Interior Life

Zahra Tavassoli-Zea. 2021, Photogénie, Issue 9

APA Citation: Tavassoli-Zea, Zahra. (2021). Gang of Four, or the Film That Magically Materializes the Viewers Own Interior Life. Photogénie Issue 9 Duras Rivette Irreducibilities. perma.cc/8VEV-6MKR

Zahra Tavassoli-Zea's Gang of Four examines how Jacques Rivette's La Bande des quatre (1989) breaks the fourth wall. This article is a resource for those interested in Rivette, as well as themes explored in many later Nouvelle Vague films.