The French New Wave: An Artistic School is a lively introduction to this critical moment in film history by one of the world's leading scholars on the New Wave.

• Provides a concise account of the French New Wave by one of the world's leading film scholars.
  
• Outlines the essential traits of the New Wave and defines it as a school that changed international film history forever.
  
• Includes a chronology of major political and cultural events of the New Wave, black-and-white images, and an extensive bibliography.