Look Back: Influences and Major Figures of the Briti...

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You could argue--at least the pervert in me would--that the British New Wave kicked off with Terence Fisher's The Curse of Frankenstein, in the same way Vadim's trashy Et Dieu...crea la femme gave the French New Wave its start by proving commercial viability and reinvigorating a moribund industry. You can at least trace the beginning of Brit pop culture as an individual, powerful force from that point.