French New Wave
ヌーヴェル・ヴァーグ / 1958–1968 / Style / Cinematic Visual Styles
Critics took cameras to the street — handheld shots, jump cuts, self-reference — turning film grammar itself into a playground.
Handheld camera / Jump cuts / Street locations / Cinema about cinema
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Cahiers du Cinéma / the jump cuts of Breathless / Agnès Varda and the Left Bank