The French New Wave

Michel Marie is Professor of Film Studies and Chair of the Department of Cinema and Audiovisual Studies at the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle. He has published critical studies on Godard's Contempt and Breathless, and is co-author of L'Analyse des films (1988), L'Esthetique du film (1993), and Dictionnaire theorique et critique du cinema (2001). Richard Neupert is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Georgia. He is author of The End: Narration and Closure in the Cinema (1995) and A History of the French New Wave (2002), and translator of Aesthetics of Film (third edition, 1997).

Translator's Note. Introduction. 1. A Journalistic Slogan and a New Generation. 2. A Critical Concept. 3. A Mode of Production and Distribution. 4. A Technical Practice, an Aesthetic. 5. New Themes and New Bodies: Characters and Actors. 6. The New Wave's International Influence and Legacy Today. Appendix: Chronology of Major Political and Cultural Events. Notes. Bibliography. Index.