Agnes Varda between Film, Photography, and Art

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By Rebecca J. DeRoo

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Agnès Varda is a prolific film director, photographer, and artist whose cinematic career spans over six decades. Known as the innovative “mother” of the French New Wave film movement, Varda defies easy categorisation by blending film, photography, and multimedia art. This extensively researched book by Rebecca J. DeRoo draws on interviews and archival access to explore how Varda complicates narrative conventions and advances contemporary cultural politics through her versatile oeuvre.
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Ideal for readers interested in film studies, feminist film practice, art history, and contemporary cultural politics, as well as those fascinated by the French New Wave and interdisciplinary art forms.

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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 categorisation.

In this extensively researched book, Agnes Varda between Film, Photography, and Art, 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.

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"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 well-researched, accessible, and timely." — H-France

"DeRoo’s nuanced approach yields new understandings of key works in Varda’s oeuvre, revealing both breadth and depth of her artistic sophistication and political acumen." — ASAP/Journal

"Provides a yet untold counter-reading of Varda’s works, attentive to the emotional, generic, aesthetic, and political complexities in her multimedia use." — Women in French Studies

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520279414

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 October 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 84 b-w illustrations

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 363g

Pages: 248

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Rebecca J. DeRoo

About the Author

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).