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IST 605: 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.

                       BOOKS

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The French New Wave: Critical Landmarks  

Edited by Peter Graham and Ginette Vincendeau. 2022, Bloomsbury.

APA Citation: The French New Wave: Critical Landmarks. (2022). Edited by Peter Graham and Ginette Vincendeau. Bloomsbury. https://archive.org/details/newwavecriticall0000grah 

The French New Wave is an anthology of writings by and about the critics and filmmakers of the Nouvelle Vague movement. The collected writings feature works and perspectives of women filmmakers and critics. As well, the films of the Nouvelle Vague are analyzed through a political context. This anthology is a resource for those interested in the foundational ideas behind the film movement from a range of different voices connected with it.

 

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New Novel, New Wave, New Politics: Fiction and the Representation of History in Postwar France

Lynn A. Higgins. 1996, University of Nebraska Press.

PN 1995.3 H54 1996

APA Citation: Higgins, Lynn A. (1996). New novel, New wave, New politics : Fiction and the Representation of History in Postwar France. University of Nebraska Press. https://search.library.albany.edu/permalink/01SUNY_ALB/qlq07b/alma990009851900204808

Lynn A. Higgins' New Novel, New Wave, New Politics overturns the traditional formal analysis of the French New Wave film movement through an assessment of the films as reflective of their creator's engagement with history and politics. This book is a resource for those who are interested in the confluence of art and politics – art as a vehicle for historical analysis and political engagement.

 

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Screening the Text: Intertextuality in New Wave French Cinema

Thomas J. Kline. 1992, Johns Hopkins University Press.

PN 1993.5 F7 K57 1992

APA Citation: Kline, Thomas J. (1992). Screening the text : Intertextuality in New Wave French Cinema. Johns Hopkins University Press. https://search.library.albany.edu/permalink/01SUNY_ALB/qlq07b/alma990008952650204808

Thomas J. Kline's Intertextuality in New Wave French Cinema assesses the French New Wave's stance of rejection of the literary arts, championing innovation through new experimental methods as a more complicated relationship than meets the eye. Kline asserts that though the directors of the New Wave dismissed literary influence on the film arts, in practice their oeuvre was intrinsically intertwined with literature, both classic and contemporary. Kline's Intertextuality is a resource for those wishing to explore the relationship between literature and film.

 

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Intermedial Dialogues: The French New Wave and the Other Arts

Marion Schmid. 2019. Edinburgh University Press.

APA Citation: Schmid, Marion. (2019). Intermedial Dialogues: The French New Wave and the Other Arts. Edinburgh University Press. https://libproxy.albany.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,sso&db=nlebk&AN=2409384&site=ehost-live&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_Covera 

Marion Schmid's Intermedial Dialogues is the first comprehensive study of the French New Wave's relationship with the older arts. Schmid analyzes and contextualizes the movement alongside the fields of literature, theatre, painting, architecture, and photography drawing on the theory of Intermediality to unpack the influences and interactions of the film movement and the "older arts." Intermedial Dialogues is an excellent resource for those wishing to study the relationship between film, art, and cultural movements.

 

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Masculine Singular

Geneviève Sellier, Translated by Kristin Ross. 2008, Duke University Press.

PN 1993.5 F7 S3713 2008

APA Citation: Sellier, Geneviève. Masculine Singular. (2008). Translated by Kristin Ross. Duke University Press. https://search.library.albany.edu/permalink/01SUNY_ALB/qlq07b/alma990014172660204808

Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading film scholars, Geneviève Sellier. Sellier deconstructs the mainly ‘male first-person singular’ viewpoint of the movement, arguing that gender relations and the construction of sexual identities were the primary subject of Nouvelle Vague film. Masculine Singular provides a unique perspective on a traditionally male-dominated topic through integration of sociology, history and critical feminist theory.