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The Cinema of Agnès Varda : Resistance and Eclecticism /

Benezet, Delphine

The Cinema of Agnès Varda : Resistance and Eclecticism / Delphine Benezet. - 1 online resource (208 p.) - Directors' Cuts .

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Beginnings -- Chapter One. Agnès Varda: A Woman Within History -- Chapter Two. Aesthetics and Technique -- Chapter Three. Varda's Ethics of Filming -- Chapter Four. Poetics of Space -- Chapter Five. Cinécriture and Originality -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index

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Agnès Varda, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has been making radical films for over half a century. Many of these are considered by scholars, filmmakers, and audiences alike, as audacious, seminal, and unforgettable. This volume considers her production as a whole, revisiting overlooked films like Mur, Murs/Documenteur (1980-81), and connecting her cinema to recent installation work. This study demonstrates how Varda has resisted norms of representation and diktats of production. It also shows how she has elaborated a personal repertoire of images, characters, and settings, which all provide insight on their cultural and political contexts. The book thus offers new readings of this director's multifaceted rêveries, arguing that her work should be seen as an aesthetically influential and ethically-driven production where cinema is both a political and collaborative practice, and a synesthetic art form.




Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780231169752 9780231850612

10.7312/bene16974 doi

2015295337


Motion picture producers and directors--France.
Performing Arts--Film & Video--Direction & Production.
Performing Arts--Reference.
Women motion picture producers and directors--France.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production.

PN1998.3.V368 / B46 2014 PN1998.3.V368 / B4 2015

791.430233092