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A history of the French new wave cinema

The French New Wave cinema is famous for its exuberance, daring and avant-garde techniques. This is a look at the social, economic and aesthetic mechanisms that shaped French film in the 1950s, as well as detailed studies of the most important New Wave movies of the late 1950s and early 1960s

Print Book, English, ©2007
2nd ed
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, ©2007