Dictionary

nouvelle vague en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /nuːˌvɛl ˈvɑːɡ/

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French nouvelle vague (literally “new wave”).

Meanings

1. (uncountable) An influential French film movement of the 1950s and 1960s which experimented radically in editing, visual style and narrative
   • 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:
   • 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:
2. (broadly, uncountable) A new movement in art or society.

Forms

Coordinates

cinéma du look

Synonyms

New Wave