New Wave
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- Both the attention to surface quality and concealment of traces of the process of production came to define the quality cinema of the Fourth Republic, and thereby provided the standard against which the New Wave filmmakers rebelled.
- French New Wave
Examples
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Despite the New Wave's antipathy toward the kind of "quality" films that Sivel had worked on, Sivel himself drew appreciation from New Wave filmmakers.
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Would Aldiss qualify as a New Wave author?
Blog text (9) -
I'd like you to watch something with the New Wave Truffaut.
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In the spirit of New Wave SF, let me begin with an autobiographical digression.
Academic text (1990) -
In the works of many New Wave auteurs, a sense of alienation often leads to disillusionment.
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Having studied the lessons of Italian Neo-Realism and French New Wave, Brazilian film directors, cameras in hand, took to the road in search of their native land.
Academic text (1992) -
Now Chytilova's textbook classic will have the opportunity to join film libraries with the other Czech New Wave luminaries, namely Menzel and Forman.
Blog text (16) -
In 1980, the French New Wave director Alain Resnais directed a film titled Mon Oncle d'Amérique.
Academic text (2003) -
The French New Wave introduced innovative storytelling techniques that changed cinema forever.
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Many filmmakers today cite the New Wave as a major influence on their work and style.
Synonyms
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A French film movement from the late 1950s and 1960s that used new ways of filming and telling stories
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'New Wave' combines 'new' (recent/novel) with 'wave' (a surge or movement), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a recent movement or trend in cinema. This metaphorical use of 'wave' is cross-linguistically common (e.g. French 'Nouvelle Vague'), so the core meaning is directly derivable even if historical specifics are unknown.
Etymology
New Wave began as a name French critics gave to a group of young film directors; they used the picture of a new wave — a strong sea wave that comes in and pushes old things aside — to show how these films changed old film rules. That's why New Wave now means a group or trend that brings 'fresh' styles to cinema.