nouvelle vague

English

Alternative forms

• Nouvelle Vague

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuːˌvɛl ˈvɑːɡ/

Noun

nouvelle vague (uncountable)

1. (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.

2. (by extension) A new movement in art or society.

Further reading

• French New Wave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Alternative forms

• Nouvelle Vague

Etymology

Literally, “new wave”. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nu.vɛl vaɡ/

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Noun

nouvelle vague f (plural nouvelles vagues)

1. new wave, nouvelle vague

Further reading

• Nouvelle Vague on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• Nouvelle vague (homonymie) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr