nouvelle vague

alternative Nouvelle Vague

1. uncountablebroadcastingAn influential French film movement of the 1950s and 1960s which experimented radically in editing, visual style and narrative

   The light of the nouvelle vague—the “new wave” in French cinema that crested in the early sixties—was special.

   2000, Gilberto Perez, The Material Ghost, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 336

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   Perhaps the great connection between the American film noir and the French nouvelle vague is best thought of in terms of the philosophical implications of life and death as seen in the disruptions and resumed continuity of the French narratives, which never forsake their graceful ritual.

   2002, Andrew Dickos, Street with No Name, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 222

   Synonyms: New Wave

2. broadlyuncountableA new movement in art or society.

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of nouvelle vague.