Agnes Varda between Film, Photography, and Art / Rebecca J. DeRoo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeRoo, Rebecca J., author.

Series:

Genesis to Revelation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Varda, Agnès.

Feminism and motion pictures--France.

Feminism and motion pictures.

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

New wave films.

Women motion picture producers and directors--France--Criticism and interpretation.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Agnès Varda is a prolific film director, photographer, and artist whose cinematic career spans more than six decades. Today she is best known as the innovative "mother" of the French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and '60s and for her multimedia art exhibitions. Varying her use of different media, she is a figure who defies easy categorization. In this extensively researched book, Rebecca J. DeRoo demonstrates how Varda draws upon the histories of art, photography, and film to complicate the overt narratives in her works and to advance contemporary cultural politics. Based on interviews with Varda and unparalleled access to Varda's archives, this interdisciplinary study constructs new frameworks for understanding one of the most versatile talents in twentieth and twenty-first century culture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Reinterpreting Varda: The Mother of the New Wave Reframes Its Histories

2. Complicating Neorealism and the New Wave: La Pointe Courte

3. Filmic and Feminist Strategies: Questioning Ideals of Happiness in Le Bonheur

4. Reconsidering Contradictions: Feminist Politics and the Musical Genre in L'une chante, l'autre pas

5. The Limits of Documentary: Identity and Urban Transformation in Daguerréotypes

6. Melancholy and Merchandise: Documenting and Displaying Widowhood in L'île et elle

7. Varda Now: Autobiography, Memory, and Retrospective

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-520-96820-4

OCLC:

975176539