Tram found this: Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists and Dreamers: an excursion into the American New Wave. It's a book about Kaufman's generation of film-makers, and how "their true pedigree can be traced back to the cinematic provocateurs of the Nouvelle Vague (Truffaut, Goddard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette, et al)."