Agnès Varda between film, photography, and art / Rebecca J. DeRoo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeRoo, Rebecca J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Varda, Agnès, 1928-2019--Criticism and interpretation.

Varda, Agnès.

Varda, Agnès, 1928-2019.

New wave films--France--History and criticism.

New wave films.

Feminism and motion pictures--France.

Feminism and motion pictures.

Criticism and interpretation.

France.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Proceeding chronologically, from the beginning of Varda's career in the 1950s to the present, this book focuses on moments where Varda's invocation of different artistic traditions within film opens onto complex commentary on broader aesthetic, theoretical, feminist, and political discussions. I reinterpret some of her best known films, but also focus attention on other less familiar works that merit further consideration. I reassess individual works with the goal of interrogating Varda's visual dialogues to reconstruct the cultural politics of the periods in which they were made. This process of reading new strands of meaning across Varda's oeuvre relies on a richly interdisciplinary approach. The result is a new cultural history of Varda and her work that makes clear how she actively engaged and subtly broadened some of the most advanced aesthetic and political discourse of her day. Many of Varda's sophisticated commentaries on controversial issues of her time have receded from view in the biographical frameworks in which her work often has been considered. The range of her engagement in her work with cinema, art history, photography, and visual culture has not been fully recognized. This decontextualization of Varda's work has been compounded by the frequent emphasis on her exceptionality within her fields of practice. In contrast, I view Varda's work as a projection of cultural history that illuminates multiple disciplines, including art history, cinema studies, visual culture, and modern French history."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Reinterpreting Varda: the mother of the new wave reframes its histories

Complicating neorealism and the new wave: La Pointe Courte

Filmic and feminist strategies: questioning ideals of happiness in Le Bonheur

Reconsidering contradictions: feminist politics and the musical genre in L'une chante, L'autre pas

The limits of documentary: identity and urban transformation in Daguerréotypes

Melancholy and merchandise: documenting and displaying widowhood in L'île et elle

Varda now: autobiography, memory, and retrospective.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-225) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: DeRoo, Rebecca J., author. Agnès Varda between film, photography, and art.

ISBN:

9780520279407

0520279409

9780520279414

0520279417

OCLC:

974992226