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Definition of new-wave in English English dictionary
- Innovative and ground-breaking
- Of or pertaining to the New Wave
- Any of several movements in music film which are or were considered cutting edge
- A pop and rock music genre that existed during the late 1970s and the early-to-mid 1980s, incorporating punk beats and synthesized sounds
- Representing the latest and most advanced style; trendy; faddish
- an art movement in French cinema in the 1960s
- In the arts or in politics, a new wave is a group or movement that deliberately introduces new or unconventional ideas instead of using traditional ones. the new wave of satirical comedy New Wave music. French nouvelle vague Group of individualistic French film directors of the late 1950s, including Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, Eric Rohmer, Alain Resnais, and others. Most of the New Wave directors were associated with the important film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, in which they developed the highly influential auteur theory, calling for films to express the director's personal vision. Their films were characterized by a brilliance of technique that sometimes overshadowed the subject matter. Among the most important New Wave films were Godard's Breathless (1959), Truffaut's The 400 Blows (1959), and Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
- new mode or style, reoccurring upsurge