Agnes Varda between Film, Photography, and Art

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-27941-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 346 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deroo, Rebecca J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Einzelne Fotografen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecca J. DeRoo is Associate Professor in the Department of Performing Arts and Visual Culture at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the author of The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art, recipient of the 2007 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies. She cocurated the retrospective Agnès Varda: (Self-)Portraits, Facts and Fiction at the George Eastman Museum (2016).