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  title info:
    title: New waves in cinema
  name:
    name part: Martin, Sean
    name part: 1966-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (458 pages)
  abstract: The term 'New Wave' conjures up images of Paris in the early 1960s: Jean Seberg and Jean Paul Belmondo, the young Jean-Pierre Leaud, the three protagonists of Jules and Jim capering across a bridge, all from the films of French filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.The impact of the French New Wave continues to be felt, and its ethos of shooting in real places, with non-professional actors and small crews would influence filmmakers as diverse as John Cassavetes and Martin Scorsese to Lars von Trier's Dogme 95 movement, all of whom sought to challenge the dominance of traditional Hollywood methods of both filmmaking and storytelling. But the French were not the only new wave, and they were not even the first. In New Waves in Cinema, Sean Martin explores the history of the many New Waves that have appeared since the birth of cinema, including their great forebears the German Expressionists, the Soviet Formalists and the Italian Neorealists. In addition, Martin looks at the movements traditionally seen as the French New Wave's contemporaries and heirs, such as the Czech New Wave, the British New Wave, the New German Cinema, the Hollywood Movie Brats and Brazilian Cinema Novo. The book also covers other new waves, such as those of Greece, Hungary, documentary - Cinema Verité and Direct Cinema - animation, avant garde and the so-called No Wave filmmakers. New Waves in Cinema also explores the differences - and similarities - between the concept of a 'new wave' and a national cinema, citing, among others, the example of the new Iranian cinema, which has given us directors as important as Abbas Kiarostami and the Makhmalbaf family, examines resurgent trends in the national cinemas of Mexico, Japan, American independent cinema and concludes with an examination of the most celebrated movement of the 1990s and 2000s, Dogme 95. New Waves in Cinema makes a convincing case for the necessity for the continued existence of new waves and national cinemas in the face of H…
  table of contents: Cover; About the Book; About the Author; Title; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction: Old Guards, New Waves; 1. Pioneers; 2. Against a Certain Tendency: The French New Wave; 3. Everything is Capsizing: 60s Italian Cinema; 4. The Significance of the Everyday: The British New Wave; 5. Sick and Tired of Bad Films: The Czech New Wave; 6. In the Shadow of Dubious Theories: The Other Europe; 7. Cinemas of Truths: New Waves in Documentary; 8. Films the Colour of Blood: The New Hollywood; 9. New Forms of Freedom: The New German Cinema; Epilogue: Dogme, Digital and the Death of New Waves
  note: Sean Martin.
  note: Description based upon print version of record.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: New wave films
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PN1995 .M346 2013eb
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    title info:
      title: New Waves in Cinema
    name:
      name part: Martin, Sean
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Oldcastle Books,c2013
  identifier: 9781842434468
  identifier: 1842434462
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 130713
    record change date: 20250816205829.1
    record identifier: in00003390846
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng