British New Wave

Humanities Culminating Project Vaporwave is a microgenre of music started in the early 2010s focused on deconstructing elements of 90s culture, consumerism, and nostalgia. It’s name is a pun on the term “vaporware,” which refers to software advertised by companies in the 90s which turn out to be nonexistent and nothing but vapor. Vaporwave works remix pop songs, Muzak, advertisements, startup sounds, and other cultural material from the 80s and 90s, to produce hypnotic, almost dreamy music. Blank

Tricheurs is a movie directed by Barbet Schroder. This follows the same style as the works Schroder directed before this point. He is not a director that puts out a large amount of movies. He had put out seven as a director between 1969 and 1986. His first movie was called “More” and came out in 1969. It was a melodrama that was quite romantic. The look of the film was stunning. It was set in Majorca and was about heroin addiction. He took a look at a tough topic and made it understandable. He

French Nouvelle Vague, also known as The French New Wave, is one of the most influential and significant movements in the film history. The films produced during French Nouvelle Vague has earned many praises and made a huge impact in the film history. French Nouvelle Vague lasted from the late 1950s to early 1960s. The movement was founded by a group of film critics who wrote for Cahiers du Cinema, a French film journal. In the group of film critics, there were Francois Truffaut, Jacques Rivette

others less so. In 1959, Breathless by French director Jean-Luc Godard was released and the film proved controversial, it raised eyebrows and to some opened eyes. The film had audiences and film critics talking and it essentially ignited the New Wave movement known as la Nouvelle Vague. Other films that massively influenced this movement were 400 Blows by François Truffaut and Hiroshima Mon Amour by Alan Resnais. The main focus of the movement was to deviate from the traditional approach of

Paramount Pictures, Inc. caused drastic change in the entire system, leading to a completely new Hollywood. The Paramount Decision in 1948 incited a chain reaction of effects, including the fall of the studio system and a change in censorship, which gave directors more leverage in the making of their movies, ultimately developing into the self-conscious “auteur” directing that is characteristic of New Hollywood. Before the Paramount Decision, Hollywood’s studio system was vertically integrated

Italian Neorealism, French New Wave Directors, and Dogme 95 filmmakers were three very important movements in cinema. The first very movement was called “neorealism” which lasted from 1944-1952 and reacted to the dominant mode of Italian cinema which was based on a fascist regime but also dealt with the socio-economic conditions from post world war 2 in Italy. The second movement began around 1958 and was called the “French new wave directors” and reacted against the industries lack of quality and

within a simple story line, “A French couple living a contemptuous conjugal life, as the wife Camille begins to abhor her husband Paul, Paul tries to investigate the reason of their failed marriage”. This simple story line, identifies the French new wave, yet with its richness in subtleties the film is more about what it doesn’t speak. To make my discussion explicable and convincing I must write about the scene in relation to another, and must correspond shots to another. The scene begins with a

a non American director of your choice. The concept of Auteur was first introduced by Andre Bazin in an essay featured in a 1954 edition of Cahier du Cinema, often referred to as ‘camera stylo’ or ‘signature style’ as a way of critiquing French new wave cinema. This theory allowed film to be criticised and analysed in the same way as other creative platforms such as art and literature. By identifying the director as auteur as opposed to just ‘Metteur-en-Scène’ it transformed them into an artisté

This film analysis will delineate the diverse directorial decisions of The French New Wave cinema movement, and how they have been utilised and developed to challenge and subvert the typical Hollywood filmmaking conventions and techniques of the 1950s and 60s Hollywood cinema, in François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959). Hollywood produced films of the time used a very limited variation in film techniques such as camera, acting, mise-en-scene, editing and sound. This can be mainly attributed to the

It might be apparent when watching the credits at the end of a movie that there are a lot of people who partake in the development in what you just watched. Although a director can’t usually create and perform all the aspects involved when making a film, the Auteur Theory focuses on the idea that the director is the true author, and creditable for the final look of the film. Auteur Theory is a philosophy of film created by Francois Truffaut, a film director and critic, in 1959. “Truffaut noted that