‘The 400 Blows’ an introduction to French New Wave.

Watch: The 400 Blows (Truffaut,1959, France)

Read: Richard Brody. Truffaut’s Last Interview. The New Yorker. 29 July, 2010.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/tr…

Read: François Truffaut. A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema. Cahiers du Cinéma. 1954.

Response (~600 words):

1. Apply concepts from the readings to the analysis of one scene from The 400 Blows examining its embodiment of the French New Wave as a story and through its material of film itself (Blocking, cinematography, editing, etc.).

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