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The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda

Feminist Practice and Pedagogy

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat (Bilkent University, Turkey) Feride Çiçekoglu (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey)

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English
Bloomsbury Academic
30 November 2023
Drawing especially on the encounters and relationships that defined her exceptional career, The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda outlines a sustainable legacy for the celebrated director and visual artist. Over nine chapters, it unpacks how creation, connection, and environment form the core of Varda’s artistry, which centers foremost on relationships with her family, with other artists, even with passersby she would meet in her travels around the world.

Also celebrating her feminist legacy, the chapters cover a wide range, from the classic Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) to documentaries The Beaches of Agnès (2008) and Faces Places (2017) as well as selected art installations. The book’s final section is dedicated to teaching Varda’s work; here, ten scholars from around the world consider how Varda’s art and feminist pedagogies offer unique ways to bring crucial concepts into the classroom. By seeking a sustainable praxis to discuss and teach Varda’s work, and by making pedagogical concerns an explicit part of this approach, this book argues that Varda’s insights about the nature of creative work will inspire new generations of viewers and audiences.

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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   454g
ISBN:   9781350240940
ISBN 10:   135024094X
Pages:   224
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgments 1. Sustaining Joy in Varda’s Legacy - Colleen Kennedy-Karpat Part 1 Creation 2. Agnès Varda’s Formalist Feminism - Jennifer Stob 3. Gleaning Metaphors from Reality in the Documentary Films of Agnès Varda - Joseph Horsey 4. The Nude Auteur, Denuding Filmmaking - Ayça Çiftçi Part 2 Connections 5. Women Directors on the Edge of Hollywood: Agnès Varda/Shirley Clarke in and beyond Lions Love (1969) - Zizi Li 6. Agnès Varda and Ursula Le Guin in Dialogue: The Narrator’s Carrier Bag - Ruken Dogu Erdede Part 3 Environments 7. Passion, Commitment, Compassion: Les Justes au Panthe´on by Agne`s Varda - Sandy Flitterman-Lewis 8. Urban Environments and Agnès Varda’s Genius loci - Zeynep Demirhan and Colleen Kennedy-Karpat 9. Iran Under Varda’s Eyes: Interview with Dr. Ali Rafie - Negar Taymoorzadeh Part 4 Teaching Varda Section Introduction: Teaching Varda - Colleen Kennedy-Karpat 10. Agnès Varda: The Queen of the Margins - Beth Tsai 11. Teaching Varda Teaching - Sandy Flitterman-Lewis 12. Varda’s Sans toit ni loi/Vagabond (1985): The Center of My Feminist Film Teaching, 1998–2020 - Kate Ince 13. Teaching Vagabond (1985) - Homay King 14. Cléo from Abu Dhabi to Seoul - Seung-hoon Jeong 15. Digital Time, Teaching Temporalities, and Feminist Pedagogies: Teaching Varda’s Gleaners (2000) Twenty Years on - Jenny Chamarette 16. Gleaning with Visible Machines: Teaching Digital Cinema and Embodiment with Agnès Varda - Michael Cramer 17. Teaching Le Bonheur (1964) - Jeremi Szaniawsk 18. Vardian Lessons: From Sea to Screen and Beyond - Nadine Boljkovac 19. Farewell to Idols with Varda - Feride Çiçekogl Filmography: Agnès Varda Additional Filmography Bibliography Index

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat teaches film and media studies at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Feride Çiçekoglu is Director of Graduate Programs in Film and Television at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.

Reviews for The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda: Feminist Practice and Pedagogy

The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda constitutes a magnificent critical tribute to the work of a filmmaker who turned cinema into an art of encountering. Arguing that her legacy extends beyond her filmography, through an ethical and political vision of art worth examining, the contributors of this book remained faithful to the memory of a woman and an artist committed to her time. --Luc Vancheri, Lumiere University Lyon 2, France Inquisitive moving-image artist par excellence, Agnes Varda receives here an expansive and multifaceted treatment, one that matches the range and generosity of her own work. These essays revise and open out our understanding of a cinema that both depicts and embodies sustenance. --Girish Shambu, Canisius College, Buffalo, USA In framing its collection of essays in terms of sustainability, The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda offers a timely intervention in feminist criticism in visual studies. Varda's work lends itself beautifully to these eco-critical analyses, which collectively sustain meticulous attention to Varda's elaborations of embodiment, space, and place across her oeuvre. --Sharon Willis, University of Rochester, USA


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