‖ nouvelle vague
(nuvɛl vag)
[Fr., f. nouvelle (fem.) new + vague wave.]
A new movement or trend; spec. one in film-making originating in France in the late 1950s; also applied to other arts; also attrib.
| 1959 Times 4 Sept. 5/4 It is a film made by one of the old guard rather than by a member of the nouvelle vague. 1960 Times 1 Nov. 16/4 The film is in no important sense nouvelle vague. 1962 John o' London's 19 Apr. 371/2 If no clique, trend, avant garde or nouvelle vague has yet arisen to claim the creative heritage of social change, perhaps it is because the upheaval is still with us. 1962 Movie Sept. 34/1 Paris Nous Appartient is arguably the most important Nouvelle Vague film to date. 1965 Philos. Rev. LXXIV. 53 The nouvelle vague of mathematics teachers. 1973 ‘E. McBain’ Let's hear It xiv. 209 Teddy normally enjoyed films, except when she was submitted to the excesses of a sadistic nouvelle vague camera. 1974 Times 26 Apr. 16/3 In terms of chronology the celebrated nouvelle vague of the late Fifties must by now be reckoned the old guard. |