European Cinema

Directors of such films often projected characters struggle to accept the absurdity of his or her existence . Most of the films during the height of the French New Wave demonstrated shots of expression a prime example is Jean-Luc Godard 's 1967 black comedy Le Week End which featured a seven minute traffic jam tracking shot as an expression of Godard 's frustration over the prevalent social customs during the time

While the editing of French New Waves seems relatively a departure from the conventional practices of classical cinema , Jill Nelmes (2003 suggests

that it is part of the directors ' expression of how the plot pushes through . Take the case of fade-to-black editing principle to establish transition the technique best exemplifies the progression of a narrative for numerous films , but French New Wave director Alain Resnais replaced it with dissolve to white denoting an uncertainty in the narrative of the film Last Year in Marienbad (Nelmes 2003

The New German Cinema meanwhile was a movement in the late 60s and 70s that called for a director 's personal involvement in the creativity of films . The dedication of filmmakers from the movement was driven by the cultural empire already established in Hollywood during the time (Nelmes 2003 . Taking striking influences from the principles of French New Wave and Italian neo-realism , the themes and styles of German cinema particularly , on the narratives resemble that of the French . Directors of the time generally had ambitious visions of criticizing society as the concept of capitalism in the American film industry had grown

The films produced during the height of German cinema also were low budget as the artists emphasized more on the art rather than the financial gain . The tight budget films like Werner Herzog 's Aguirre the wrath of God prohibited the filmmakers to...