- a movement, trend, or vogue, as in art, literature, or politics, that breaks with traditional concepts, values, techniques, or the like.
- a group of leaders or representatives of such a movement, especially of French film directors of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
- a largely minimalist but emotionally intense style of rock music, being an outgrowth of punk rock in the late 1970s, typified by spare or repetitive arrangements, and emphasizing energetic, unpolished performance.
- a movement in art, film-making, politics, etc, that consciously breaks with traditional ideas
- a movement in the French cinema of the 1960s, led by such directors as Godard, Truffaut, and Resnais, characterized by a fluid use of the camera and an abandonment of traditional editing techniques
- rock music of the late 1970s, related to punk but more complex: sometimes used to include punk
