New Wave Filmmakers

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This paper explains how French New Wave filmmakers of the early 1960s were influenced by genre movies from Hollywood. The paper looks at how these filmmakers not only learned from the Hollywood movies and imitated what they liked about the films, but also diverged from the Hollywood genre style movies in order to reflect their own styles and expression.

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"The filmmakers of the French New Wave of the early 1960s had educated themselves in film at the Cinematheque in Paris, watching American genre films and learning the language of film and then translating the experience into a unique film form of their own. Many of the major films produced by these young filmmakers emulated American genre films, though the way the American films of classic Hollywood were made and the appeal they had differed from that of the New Wave films of the 1960s. Often, the French filmmakers would take a genre and some of its elements and then turn them to a different use, exploring the deeper social and philosophical meaning inherent in the American genres. Even though the sources for many of the French films were readily apparent to the discerning viewer, the differences were also apparent."

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