nouvelle vague
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Borrowed from French nouvelle vague (literally “new wave”).
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nouvelle vague (uncountable)
- (film) An influential French film movement of the 1950s and 1960s which experimented radically in editing, visual style and narrative
- Synonym: New Wave
- Coordinate term: cinéma du look
- 2000, Gilberto Perez, The Material Ghost, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 336:
- The light of the nouvelle vague—the “new wave” in French cinema that crested in the early sixties—was special.
- 2002, Andrew Dickos, Street with No Name, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 222:
- 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.
- (by extension) A new movement in art or society.
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- French New Wave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Literally, “new wave”. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
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nouvelle vague f (plural nouvelles vagues)
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- Nouvelle Vague on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
- Nouvelle vague (homonymie) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr