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They labelled it the cinema de papa (old fogies cinema). They put forward and discussed many different propositions and ideas in the pages of the cahiers du cinema in the 50s. The most significant one which had the greatest influence on new wave films was la politique des auteurs (The policy of authors). Largely created by Truffaut in his famous essay a certain tendency in French Cinema he argued that a film, through the way in which its images are presented to the audience on the screen, should express and reflect the personality of the director. This policy later became known as the auter theory. These critics were renowned for their praise of some Hollywood directors, particularly Howard Hawkes, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford who they admired for their individual styles. For the best part of a decade these critics argued their beliefs in the pages of cahiers du cinema. It was in their criticisms of other peoples work that subliminally they defined the kind of films that they wanted to make, but it
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The main reason why the nouvelle vauge existed was because the French Film industry went through a drastic change and opened its doors to new ideas. These changes were brought about inadvertently because of a number of different factors. For reasons that I have outlined above the French film industry was pretty closed and un-sympathetic to new ideas. By 1957 things were changing. Attendances to cinemas were falling sharply. This was partly due to the growing popularity of television as an entertainment medium and partly due to the stagnant nature of French cinema. By 1959 the industry was in crisis. Roger Vadims 1956 film Et Dieu crea la femme, (And woman was created) was a low budget film which was a commercial success. It proved that low budget films made outside of the tradition of qualityrquote could make money and it acted as a sort of catalyst within the industry and led to a climate of experimentation. This, along with the invention of new fast emulsion film stocks and light weight cameras, enabled film makers with material restraints to make saleable films on a low budgets because they needed less crew and could work with ease on location. This new openness within the industry was significantly aided by a government
The main reason why the nouvelle vauge existed was because the French Film industry went through a drastic change and opened its doors to new ideas. These changes were brought about inadvertently because of a number of different factors. For reasons that I have outlined above the French film industry was pretty closed and un-sympathetic to new ideas. By 1957 things were changing. Attendances to cinemas were falling sharply. This was partly due to the growing popularity of television as an entertainment medium and partly due to the stagnant nature of French cinema. By 1959 the industry was in crisis. Roger Vadims 1956 film Et Dieu crea la femme, (And woman was created) was a low budget film which was a commercial success. It proved that low budget films made outside of the tradition of qualityrquote could make money and it acted as a sort of catalyst within the industry and led to a climate of experimentation. This, along with the invention of new fast emulsion film stocks and light weight cameras, enabled film makers with material restraints to make saleable films on a low budgets because they needed less crew and could work with ease on location. This new openness within the industry was significantly aided by a government