... Perier,11 3The French New Wave and the New Hollywood: Le Samourai 4 The Driver also foregrounds its textuality by having a pivotal sequence set on a train. taps before being a victim himself, while ... style, American Gigolo is the closest of the New Hollywoodfilms to Le Samourai. Discussing American Gigolo, Schrader has acknowledgedsome of his debt to the French, and wider European, New Wave. ... the fetishization of costume11 5The French New Wave and the New Hollywood: Le Samourai monograph, Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris (2003), as well as the factthat Jean-Pierre Grumbach...