Media Lab Interactive Narrative: Take Me to the Movies

Answer 3: False, an important influence on Jean-Luc Godard’s work is actually Jean Rouch, an anthropologist who became the first practitioner and theoretician of the documentary-like film style cinéma vérité (“cinema truth”). This cinema style employs lightweight television equipment to observe their subject with total informality, without preconceived bias so that the theme and motifs emerge only when shooting or during the editing stage. This did not only influence Jean Luc Godard but the French New Wave itself. 

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