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  1. noun A movement in French cinema in the 1960s, led by directors such as Jean Luc Godard and François Truffaut, that abandoned traditional narrative techniques in favor of greater use of symbolism and abstraction and dealt with themes of social alienation, psychopathology, and sexual love. Also called nouvelle vague.
  2. noun Any of various new movements in cinema, especially one led by a group of experimental filmmakers.
  3. noun An avant-garde or experimental movement, as in the arts.
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  1. Translation of French nouvelle vague : nouvelle, new + vague, wave.
 

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