LEADER 00000cam a2200601 i 4500 001 974992226 003 OCoLC 005 20171215023849.0 008 170217t20182018caua b s001 0deng c 010 2017007722 020 9780520279407|qhardcover|qalkaline paper 020 0520279409|qhardcover|qalkaline paper 020 9780520279414|qpaperback|qalkaline paper 020 0520279417|qpaperback|qalkaline paper 040 CU-S/DLC|beng|erda|cCUS|dDLC|dBDX|dBTCTA|dYDX|dOCLCF |dOCLCO|dOCL|dCAM|dYDX|dOCLCO|dBKL|dOBE 042 pcc 043 e-fr--- 050 00 PN1998.3.V368|bD47 2018 082 00 791.43023/3092|223 100 1 DeRoo, Rebecca J.,|eauthor. 245 10 Agnès Varda between film, photography, and art /|cRebecca J. DeRoo. 264 1 Oakland, California :|bUniversity of California Press, |c[2018] 264 4 |c©2018 300 x, 238 pages :|billustrations ;|c23 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 336 still image|bsti|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 500 Publication information obtained from the publisher : https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520279414 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-225) and index. 505 0 Reinterpreting Varda : the mother of the new wave reframes its histories -- Complicating neorealism and the new wave : La Pointe Courte -- Filmic and feminist strategies : questioning ideals of happiness in Le Bonheur -- Reconsidering contradictions : feminist politics and the musical genre in L'une chante, l'autre pas -- The limits of documentary : identity and urban transformation in Daguerréotypes -- Melancholy and merchandise : documenting and displaying widowhood in L'île et elle -- Varda now : autobiography, memory, and retrospective. 520 "Proceeding chronologically, from the beginning of Varda's career in the 1950s to the present, this book focuses on moments where Varda's invocation of different artistic traditions within film opens onto complex commentary on broader aesthetic, theoretical, feminist, and political discussions. I reinterpret some of her best known films, but also focus attention on other less familiar works that merit further consideration. I reassess individual works with the goal of interrogating Varda's visual dialogues to reconstruct the cultural politics of the periods in which they were made. This process of reading new strands of meaning across Varda's oeuvre relies on a richly interdisciplinary approach. The result is a new cultural history of Varda and her work that makes clear how she actively engaged and subtly broadened some of the most advanced aesthetic and political discourse of her day. Many of Varda's sophisticated commentaries on controversial issues of her time have receded from view in the biographical frameworks in which her work often has been considered. The range of her engagement in her work with cinema, art history, photography, and visual culture has not been fully recognized. This decontextualization of Varda's work has been compounded by the frequent emphasis on her exceptionality within her fields of practice. In contrast, I view Varda's work as a projection of cultural history that illuminates multiple disciplines, including art history, cinema studies, visual culture, and modern French history."--Provided by publisher. 600 10 Varda, Agnès,|d1928-|xCriticism and interpretation. 600 17 Varda, Agnès,|d1928-|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00275550 650 0 Motion picture producers and directors|zFrance|xCriticism and interpretation. 650 0 New wave films|zFrance|xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Feminism and motion pictures|zFrance. 650 7 Feminism and motion pictures.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00922742 650 7 New wave films.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01036943 651 7 France.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204289 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 |iOnline version:|aDeRoo, Rebecca J., author.|tAgnès Varda between film, photography, and art.|dOakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]|z9780520968202 |w(DLC) 2017011585 956 20171215|bnts 956 20180124|bpfmcq|cMC 957 OCLC xref loaded 20180204 994 C0|bZAP