Agnes Varda between Film, Photography, and Art

Rebecca J. DeRoo

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English

University of California Press
17 October 2017

Dance & Performing arts

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.

By: Rebecca J. DeRoo
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780520279407
ISBN 10: 0520279409
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 17 October 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Rebecca J. DeRoo is Assistant 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 co-curated the retrospective, Agnes Varda: (Self-)Portraits, Facts and Fiction, at the George Eastman Museum (2016).

Reviews for Agnes Varda between Film, Photography, and Art

DeRoo's book provides a yet untold counter-reading of Varda's works. Her interpretations are acutely attentive, acknowledging the many sites of emotional, generic, aesthetic, and political complexity that arise as a result of Varda's use of multimedia. * Women in French Studies * DeRoo's nuanced approach yields altogether new understandings of key works in Varda's oeuvre. . .the readings in Agnes Varda: Between Film, Photography, and Art reveal both the breadth and depth of Varda's artistic sophistication and political acumen. * ASAP/Journal * DeRoo's work is a welcome and significant contribution to scholarship on a still too-neglected filmmaker and has much to offer those wanting an introduction to Varda and key issues animating critical reception of her films. The book is a well-researched, accessible, and timely addition to expanding scholarship on Varda as a pioneering and dynamic French filmmaker whose multifaceted oeuvre is central to ongoing and urgent debates about feminist film practice, filmmaking as an intermedia art form, and the ethics and aesthetics of documentary practice. * H-France *