French New Wave

Remember to include the following aspects in your work on the French New Wave (you'll probably want to include more than this, though):

People:

• André Bazin
• Claude Chabrol
• Jean-Luc Godard
• Francois Truffaut
• Charlie Chaplin
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Orson Welles
• Howard Hawks
• John Ford
• Nicholas Ray
• Bob Rafelson
• Quentin Tarantino

Themes, ideas, inspirations:

• Italian neo-realism
• Challenges to the social order
• Auteur theory
• Cahiers du cinéma
• Une Certaine tendance du cinéma français
• Existentialism
• New Hollywood
• Absurdity of existence

Films and techniques:

• Le Beau Serge
• Les Quatre Cents Coups
• A Bout de Souffle

• Tracking shots
• Playing with audience expectation
• Low budget
• Jump cuts

Please remember that you also need to get across a 'feeling' for the French New Wave (imagine what is was like to be a part of it), not just a dry definition of the different ideas, people, and techniques that it involved. The movement was more than just an expression of artistic concepts - it was a whole way of life!