New Wave may refer to various artistic movements in film, music and literature. These include:

Movements in film

* The New Wave,

French New Wave The New Wave (, ), also called the French New Wave, is a French European art cinema, art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentat ...

, or Nouvelle Vague, the inaugural New Wave cinema movement *

Australian New Wave The Australian New Wave (also known as the Australian Film Revival, Australian Film Renaissance, or New Australian Cinema) was an era of resurgence in the worldwide popularity of the Australian cinema, particularly in the United States. It began ...

* Indian New Wave, or

Parallel cinema Parallel cinema, or New Indian Cinema, is a film movement in Cinema of India, Indian cinema that originated in the state of West Bengal in the 1950s as an alternative to the mainstream commercial Indian cinema. Inspired by Italian Neorealism, ...

Japanese New Wave The is a term for a group of loosely-connected Japanese films and filmmakers between the late 1950s and part of the 1970s. The most prominent representatives include directors Nagisa Ōshima, Yoshishige Yoshida, Masahiro Shinoda and Shōhei I ...

, or Nuberu Bagu, which also developed around the same time as the French ''Nouvelle Vague'' * Persian New Wave, or

Iranian New Wave Iranian New Wave () refers to a movement in Iranian cinema. It started in 1964 with Hajir Darioush's second film ''Serpent's Skin'', which was based on D.H. Lawrence's '' Lady Chatterley's Lover'' and featured Fakhri Khorvash and Jamshid Mas ...

, started in the 1960s *

New German Cinema New German Cinema () is a period in Cinema of Germany, West German cinema which lasted from 1962 to 1982, in which a new generation of directors emerged who, working with low budgets, and influenced by the French New Wave and Italian Neorealism, ...

, new wave of German cinema *

Berlin School (filmmaking) ''Berlin School'' is a term used for a new movement in German films that has emerged in the early 21st century. The German term ''Berliner Schule'' has been applied to a number of intimate German films that received critical acknowledgement, firs ...

, also Known as Nouvelle Vague Allemand, second new wave of German cinema * New Nigerian Cinema, also known as Nigerian New Wave *

Czechoslovak New Wave The Czechoslovak New Wave (also Czech/Slovak New Wave) is a term used for the Czechoslovak filmmakers who started making films in the 1960s. The directors commonly included are Miloš Forman, Věra Chytilová, Jan Švankmajer, Ivan Passer, Pave ...

Cinema Novo Cinema Novo (; 'New Cinema'), is a genre and movement of film noted for its emphasis on social equality and intellectualism that rose to prominence in Brazil during the 1960s and 1970s.Dixon & Foster, 293. Cinema Novo formed in response to class ...

or Novo Cinema, a movement in Brazilian and Portuguese film *

Hong Kong New Wave The Hong Kong New Wave is a film movement in Chinese-language Hong Kong cinema that emerged in the late 1970s and lasted through the early 2000s until the present time. Origins of the movement The Hong Kong New Wave started in 1979 with the rele ...

, a movement in Hong Kong film led by Tsui Hark *

Philippine New Wave Philippine New Wave (known as Filipino New Wave or Contemporary Philippine Cinema) is a filmmaking term that has been popularly associated with the resurgence of independent film, independent, digital film, digital and experimental films in the P ...

, also known as Filipino New Wave or Contemporary Philippine Cinema *

Romanian New Wave The Romanian New Wave () is a genre of realist and often minimalist films made in Romania since the mid- aughts, starting with two award-winning shorts by two Romanian directors, namely Cristi Puiu's ''Cigarettes and Coffee'', which won the Sh ...

British New Wave The British New Wave is a style of films released in Great Britain between 1959 and 1963. The label is a translation of ''Nouvelle Vague'', the French term first applied to the films of François Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard among others. Stylis ...

* Taiwan New Wave * Thai New Wave *

Toronto New Wave The Toronto New Wave refers to a loose-knit group of filmmakers from Toronto who came of age during the 1980s and early 1990s. History Atom Egoyan, John Greyson, Ron Mann, Bruce McDonald, Don McKellar, Peter Mettler, Jeremy Podeswa and Patricia ...

New Hollywood The New Hollywood, Hollywood Renaissance, American New Wave, or New American Cinema (not to be confused with the New American Cinema of the 1960s that was part of Experimental film, avant-garde underground film, underground cinema), was a movemen ...

, also known as the American New Wave *

New generation (Malayalam film movement) New generation films is a Malayalam cinema, Malayalam film movement developed in the early 2010s, characterized by fresh and unusual themes and new narrative techniques. Films of the new wave differ from conventional themes of the past two decades ...

, new wave of Indian Malayalam cinema * Mexican (' Nuevo Cine Mexicano')

Movements in music

* '' Bossa nova'' a genre of Brazilian music (while it is commonly translated as "new wave", the word "bossa" originally means "small elevation on a surface" like the bump on a camel's back or a lump resulting from a blow, and more informally "bossa" came to mean "a way, a quality" of doing something with grace, that makes you stand out) *

New wave music New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop music, pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s. It is considered a lighter and more melodic "broadening of Punk subculture, punk culture". It was originally used as a catch-all fo ...

, in the United Kingdom, the United States and various enclaves in the late 1970s and through the 1980s *

New wave of British heavy metal The new wave of British heavy metal (often abbreviated as NWOBHM) was a nationwide musical movement that began in England in the mid-1970s and achieved international attention by the early 1980s. Editor Alan Lewis (music journalist), Alan Lew ...

New wave of American heavy metal The new wave of American heavy metal (also known as NWOAHM and new wave of American metal) was a heavy metal music movement that originated in the United States during the early–mid 1990s and expanded most in the early to mid-2000s. Some of th ...

New wave of traditional heavy metal The new wave of traditional heavy metal (N.W.O.T.H.M.) is a musical movement that started in the mid-2000s as a revival of classic metal sound from the 1970s and 1980s. The term is used to describe bands that make heavy use of the elements and st ...

* New Wave revival * ''

Neue Deutsche Welle Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW, , "New German Wave") is a genre of West German rock music originally derived from post-punk and new wave music with electronic influences. The term was first coined by Dutch radio DJ Frits Ritmeester on the popular na ...

'', the German new wave music movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s * Yugoslav new wave, aka Novi val, Novi talas or Nov bran, the new wave scene in Yugoslavia in the late 1970s and early 1980s * ''

Nueva ola The nueva ola (; Spanish for "new wave") was a loosely affiliated group of musicians, mainly in Spanish-speaking South America, who played and introduced rock 'n roll and other American and European music of the 1950s and 1960s to their countries ...

'', a form of Spanish language popular music inspired on the musical developments of US and Europe in the 1950s and 1960s * Onda Nueva, a type of Venezuelan jazz/classical music, founded by

Aldemaro Romero Aldemaro Romero (March 12, 1928 – September 15, 2007) was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo State. Biography Romero was a prolific composer, creating a wide range of music, su ...

Eurodisco Eurodisco (also spelled as Euro disco) is a genre of electronic dance music that evolved from disco in the middle 1970s, incorporating elements of pop music, pop and rock music, rock into a disco-like continuous dance atmosphere. Many Eurodisco ...

, referred to by the

Vietnamese-American Vietnamese Americans () are Americans of Vietnamese people, Vietnamese ancestry. They constitute a major part of all overseas Vietnamese. As of 2023, over 2.3 million people of Vietnamese descent live in the United States, making them the fourth ...

communities as "new wave" music.

Movements in literature

New Wave science fiction The New Wave was a science fiction style of the 1960s and 1970s, characterized by a great degree of experimentation with the form and content of stories, greater imitation of the styles of non-science fiction literature, and an emphasis on the p ...

, a movement in the 1960s and 1970s *

New Wave (manga) was a movement within the Japanese manga industry during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Critics together with artists challenged the by then conventional frameworks of shōnen manga, shōjo manga and gekiga by introducing innovative means of exp ...

, a movement in manga in the late 1970s and early 1980s

Multidisciplinary movements

* Ukrainian New Wave

Movements in film

Movements in music

Movements in literature

Multidisciplinary movements

See also