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The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) Single Film Study »
Categories: OCR A Level, French New Wave, Avant-Garde, Drama, Crime, European Film, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
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À Bout de Souffle (Breathless) »
Categories: OCR A Level, French New Wave, World Cinema, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
À Bout de Souffle (Breathless) (1960) Jean-Luc Godard, the director of À Bout de Souffle, always sought to encourage the audience to rethink what film could be in terms of both subject matter and the treatment of that subject matter. Godard once commented that ‘To me style is just the outside of content and content the inside of style; like the outside and inside of the human body both go together, they cannot be separated.’ [5]. It’s surely one of the most useful…
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European Film Movement: French New Wave »
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, French New Wave, Production Companies, World Cinema, A Level, Film Industry, Film Distribution, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
In 1950, when he was only nineteen years old, Jean-Luc Godard, one day to become one the great filmmakers, wrote a piece for the French publication Gazette du Cinema called Towards A Political Cinema. Even at this young age, Godard was aware of cinema’s power to communicate ideas. Jean-Luc Godard examines a strip of film: Film history describes a wide range of film movements that have each had an often-short lifespan that’s been quite specific but the legacies of which have endured.…
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