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The Cinema of Agnès Varda

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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, semina...
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  • 20 May 2014
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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.
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Price: $95.00
Pages: 208
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: WallFlower Press
Series: Directors' Cuts
Publication Date: 20 May 2014
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9780231169745
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Guides & Reviews
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There have been other excellent books on Varda, but this particular text, neatly illustrated with frame blow-ups, and graced with a detailed filmography, is one of the best, and also has the virtue of being the most complete... Pick up a copy now.
Delphine Bénézet teaches comparative literature in the School of Languages, Linguistics, and Film at Queen Mary, University of London.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Beginnings
1. Agnes Varda: A Woman Within History
2. Aesthetics and Technique
3. Varda's Ethics of Filming
4. Poetics of Space
5. Cinecriture and Originality
Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography
Index