Category Archives: New Waves

Aron Brown: In Response to “Is This the Way to Remember the Wave??”

What is particularly upsetting about this scenario is the fact that, as the OP recognized, the French New Wave’s intention was to challenge its audience, operate as non-commercially as possible, and always deal with the world with a truckload of … Continue reading

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Ana Lomtadze: In response to “Is This Really the Way to Remember The Wave?”

Thanks for the wonderful blog-post![1] Indeed, the period of late 1950ies and 60ies – the time of the French and other New Waves – was a unique precedent all over the world, in which cinema occupied a particular space for … Continue reading

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Is This Really the Way to Remember the Wave??

by Elizabeth Cho and Sarah Jane Huber Three weeks ago the Swedish electropop band Icona Pop released a music video for their song “Just Another Night.” Several music bloggers around the internet commented that Icona Pop “go Godard” on us … Continue reading

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The 1960s New Wave: An Audience’s Odyssey

          The 1960s were a pivotal time in cinema, in which auteurs like Jean-Luc Godard began pushing boundaries in filmmaking and redefining film as an art form. The new focus on cinema as art in contrast … Continue reading

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