Casting fresh light on one of the most important movements in film
history, Intermedial Dialogues: The French New Wave and the Other Arts
is the first comprehensive study of the New Wave's relationship with the
older arts. Traversing the fields of literature, theatre, painting,
architecture and photography, and drawing on André Bazin alongside
recent theories of intermediality, it investigates the 'impure',
intermedial aesthetics of New Wave cinema. Filmmakers under discussion
include critics-turned-directors François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer,
Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette and Claude Chabrol, members of the Left
Bank Group Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Chris Marker, but also
lesser-known directors, notably the 'secret child of the New Wave', Guy
Gilles. This wide-ranging book offers an original reading of the
complex, often ambivalent ways in which the New Wave engages the other
arts in both its discursive construction and filmic practice.
Key Features:
- A wide-ranging study which explores the complex, often ambiguous ways
in which the New Wave engages with the other arts in both its
discursive construction and cinematic practice
- Affords a new prism for understanding New Wave filmmaking and its
legacy through comprehensive analysis of the ways in which the New
Wave aesthetic was shaped through intermedial dialogue and medium
rivalry
- Reassesses one of the most acclaimed movements in film history drawing
on cutting-edge theory in the prominent field of intermediality
studies
- Offers an inclusive, heterogeneous view of the New Wave through
inclusion of lesser-known directors such as Guy Gilles, Jean-Daniel
Pollet and Jacques Demy alongside renowned Nouvelle Vague filmmakers
