Browse Hierarchy FLM014: The French New Wave

This module focuses on one of the most influential movements in the history of cinema, the French New Wave. Foregrounding the ways in which New Wave cinema can be seen to reflect broader changes in French society and culture in the period 1958-1964, the module will also consider how contemporary developments in areas like technology, film financing and film theory impacted upon New Wave aesthetics. Studying canonical New Wave films by the so-called Cahiers group of directors - Chabrol, Truffaut, Godard, Rohmer and Rivette - students will also examine important pre-cursors to the New Wave in films from the 1950s by Agnès Varda, Jean-Pierre Melville, Roger Vadim and Louis Malle.