Title: The Pocket Essential French New Wave
Description: This Guide reviews and analyses all of the major films in the movement and offers profiles of its principal stars, such as Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina and Brigitte Bardot. There is also an introductory essay, Making Waves, which examines the social context of the movement in France as well as the directors' considerable influence on later generations of film-makers across the globe. A handy multi-media reference guide at the end of the book points the way towards further New Wave resources.
Subjects: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Motion pictures, france, Motion pictures, history, New wave films, History and criticism