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Agnès Varda between film, photography, and art / Rebecca J. DeRoo.
Author
DeRoo, Rebecca J.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Description
1 online resource
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Subject(s)
New wave films
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France
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History and criticism
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Women motion picture producers and directors
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France
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Criticism and interpretation
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Varda, Agnès 1928-2019
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Criticism and interpretation
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Summary note
"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.
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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 daguerreotypes
Melancholy and merchandise: documenting and displaying widowhood in L'Île Et Elle
Varda now: autobiography, memory, and retrospective.
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ISBN
9780520968202 ((ebook))
0520968204
LCCN
2017011585
OCLC
975176539
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