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The Cinema of Agnès Varda : Resistance and Eclecticism / Delphine Benezet.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Directors' CutsPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231169752
  • 9780231850612
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430233092 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1998.3.V368 B46 2014
  • PN1998.3.V368 B4 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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