Michel Marie 
The French New Wave [PDF ebook] 
An Artistic School

Translator’s Note.
Introduction.
1. A Journalistic Slogan and a New Generation.
2. A Critical Concept.
3. A Mode of Production and Distribution.
4. A Technical Practice, an Aesthetic.
5. New Themes and New Bodies: Characters and Actors.
6. The New Wave’s International Influence and Legacy Today.
Appendix: Chronology of Major Political and Cultural Events.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Michel Marie is Professor of Film Studies and Chair of the
Department of Cinema and Audiovisual Studies at the University of
Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle. He has published critical studies on
Godard’s Contempt and Breathless, and is co-author of L’Analyse
des films (1988), L’Esthétique du film (1993), and
Dictionnaire théorique et critique du cinéma
(2001).
Richard Neupert is Associate Professor of Film Studies at
the University of Georgia. He is author of The End: Narration
and Closure in the Cinema (1995) and A History of the French
New Wave (2002), and translator of Aesthetics of Film
(third edition, 1997).