ndamental social changes that defined an entire post-World War II generationàwho saw themselves as culturally distinct from their parentsÆ generation. By the time of the first New Wave movies, the term ônouvelle vagueö was already being applied to everything from juvenile attitudes to a style of living (Neupert 15).
Another issue, perhaps the most important, is the intellectual and artistic response of creative artists and thinkers, searching for freedom from
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