Black Wave

English

Etymology

Calque of Serbo-Croatian cȓnī vȃl.

Proper noun

the Black Wave

1. (film) A Yugoslav film movement of the 1960s and 1970s, characterized by its dark humor and critical examination of the socialist society at the time.
   • [2014, Doru Pop, Romanian New Wave Cinema: An Introduction, McFarland, →ISBN, page 155:

     Still, the moviemaking style which began with the so called “Black Wave” of the Yugoslav cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, led by Dušan Makavejev and Želimir Žilnik, has many common traits, especially at the level of the humoresque, […]]

Further reading

• Yugoslav Black Wave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia