- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Essentials; 2nd Revised edition edition (7 Jan 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904048447
- ISBN-13: 978-1904048442
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.6 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 974,515 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Boxoffice Magazine, April, 2002
'A meticulously assembled guidebook covering the influential period of Gallic filmmaking.'
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Leeds Guide, December, 2001
'Entertaining and highly informative, it is certainly the most instantly accessible work on the subject.'
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Another essential Pocket Essential.,
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews (No. 1 Hall OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: French New Wave (Pocket Essentials) (Paperback)
I really love the Pocket Essentials range, budget-priced tomes that take a brief overview of a cultural subject, be they a film director, a genre, a writer or a TV programme. Chris Wiegand's book on the French New Wave is up there with the best of this range- looking at an overview of the Nouvelle Vague in a minor, thematic breakdown- as the PE Oliver Stone or Vietnam books do.The major films of the New Wave are placed in these chapters- thus the cool early works such as Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud & Les Amants are located in The Birth of the Cool, while 'Guns, Girls & Gaouloises' focuses on A Bout de Souffle et Tirez Sur Le Pianiste (though you could easily place Bande a Part or Lift to the Scaffold here also). Wiegand points out that Godard's short Il Nuovo Mondo (from RoGoPaG) fits along with Chris Marker's La Jetee, Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 & Godard's full length Alphaville- noting how the Nouvelle Vague experimented with the SF-genre (Godard's later Weekend has many SF qualities- especially compared to JG Ballard's Crash or Cronenberg's adaptation). I would like to see someone discuss the SF New Wave inflections elsewhere... As with the other PE's it gives a nice Bibliography of the best works on the genre (such as Douchet's French New Wave or Godard on Godard)- though the note on the availability is mildly incorrect (it's still relatively easy to purchase Jules et Jim, for example). The list of pertinent websites is very helpful. Regardless, this is a good introduction & primer to a most influential film movement- even if you don't buy into their auteur theory (as William Goldman does not in Which Lie Did I Tell?). A fun read, even if familiar with films such as Zazie dans La Metro, Les Quatre Cents Coups or Pierret Le Fou. A top concise read from those nice folks at Pocket Essentials...
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This review is from: French New Wave (Pocket Essentials) (Paperback)
New Wave films were sensual, melancholic, capturing the zeitgeist and reflecting the turbulent social and political changes that characterized the 1950s and 1960s. The Paris Riots in May 1968 could have been scripted by writers of the New Wave. Through critiques and editorials, they conceived the principle that the director, like the author of a book, was the auteur of the film and formulated credits that began A Film By - a format readily adopted by directors everywhere. More significantly, la Nouvelle Vague filmmakers challenged the commercial Hollywood notion of movies as entertainment (or business, or propaganda) and perceived film as an art form. As the art form.
Although these writer/directors inevitably moved on to make features, one more achievement was that they had provided new dignity and a sense of place to the short film. In a short there is an opportunity to reshuffle the cards of film language and take on themes commercial producers avoid on both commercial grounds and the fear of the new. There is a certain comfort in the dull warmth of Plato's cave, our backs to the sun watching shadows on the wall. Show us a glimpse of life beyond the walls of our own narrow world, and the mind will not immediately compute what it is seeing. It is the brave artist - or auteur - prepared to swim against the tide who often finds the greatest success; or at least critical success. The growth of impressionistic, poetic, surreal, transgressional, boundary breaking, avant-garde exploratory films gave rise to the festival circuit, as well as the introduction of Art House cinemas where audiences can expect to see films that are difficult, complex, controversial or just plain foreign. Little of this would have been achieved with the French New Wave and Chris Wiegand in this concise Pocket Essential reminds us once again of the debt we owe Truffaut, Rivette, Chabrol, Godard, Rohmer and, of course, the great Andre Bazin.
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