The New-Wave Cinema
Evolution of Society’s Art System
The New-Wave Cinema
Evolution of Society’s Art System
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This book introduces a novel conceptualization of “new-wave cinema” as a borderless phenomenon, akin to a “wave” that crashes upon established film aesthetics in a certain society. Using Niklas Luhmann's systems theory, the book explores the correlation between the rise of new-wave cinema and the societal conflicts contemporaneous with its inception.
The term “new-wave cinema,” historically attributed by film critics to specific film collections within different societies, has lacked universal applicability in film scholarship. This book identifies the defining criterion of the new wave not solely within its specific aesthetics but in the transformative “break” that these aesthetic properties effectuate upon the prevailing filmic communication. This “break” extends beyond singular films, manifesting within a substantial cohort, thereby justifying the label “wave.” Notably, this “wave” does not materialize as a result of a collective decision by filmmakers but rather in correlation with the societal “contradictions and conflicts” prevailing during the emergence of new-wave films.
This book delineates how the resonance of societal contradictions and conflicts in films, as a subsystem of art, can catalyze three different reactions to existing aesthetic and narrative traditions, thereby giving birth to new cinematic waves. The analysis concentrates on three paradigmatic new-wave cinemas spanning three continents, namely New German Cinema, New Hollywood, and New Iranian Cinema, illustrating the universality of its thesis despite the aesthetic differences among the cinematic movements commonly labeled as “new wave” in film scholarship.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective on Film
1.1. Introduction to Systems Theory of Society
1.2. Film as a Subsystem of Art
Part 2: The Wave-Like Evolution of Film Art
2.1. New German Cinema
2.2. New Hollywood
2.3. New Iranian Cinema
Conclusion
References
Filmography
Notes
Index
Product details
| Published | Jun 11 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9798765125144 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 61 bw illus + 3 line drawings |
| Series | Thinking Media |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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