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Agnes Varda between Film, Photography, and Art Paperback – October 17, 2017
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- Print length248 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication dateOctober 17, 2017
- Dimensions6 x 0.62 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100520279417
- ISBN-13978-0520279414
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“DeRoo’s nuanced approach yields altogether new understandings of key works in Varda’s oeuvre. . .the readings in Agnès Varda: Between Film, Photography, and Art reveal both the breadth and depth of Varda’s artistic sophistication and political acumen.”
― ASAP/Journal
"DeRoo’s book provides a yet untold counter-reading of Varda’s works. Her interpretations are acutely attentive, acknowledging the many sites of emotional, generic, aesthetic, and political complexity that arise as a result of Varda’s use of multimedia." ― Women in French Studies
"Rebecca DeRoo’s Agnès Varda between Film, Photography, and Art, which takes as its central problem the intermediality and intertextuality of Varda’s work in the context of history, society, and feminism, is, then, to be greeted with great interest." ― Journal for Cinema and Media Studies
"Quietly visionary in the way it deconstructs and reconstructs readings of Varda, DeRoo’s book enacts its own kind of cinematic labour, offering interpretive space for an understanding of Varda as a deeply politicised, strategically canny and immensely generous interlocutor with the people and the places that she filmed."
― French Screen Studies
"Debunking the image of an apolitical Varda and reframing her place in the history of French film, DeRoo demonstrates convincingly that the aesthetic and the political are inseparably enmeshed. . . .This deftly argued and engagingly written book is a must for researchers interested in Varda and in French cinema more widely. Making a brilliant contribution to the burgeoning field of intermediality studies, it will also prove a most welcome tool for teaching purposes."
― French Studies: A Quarterly Review
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“With extraordinary access to Agnès Varda’s papers and production materials, Rebecca DeRoo’s study uniquely illuminates what Varda called the 'three lives of Agnès'—as photographer, filmmaker, and visual artist. The author insightfully tracks Varda’s generative semantic slippages across different media and also provides a smart reevaluation of the filmmaker’s restless inventiveness. Essentially reframing Varda’s anomalous place in film history, DeRoo’s refined analysis and detailed references to film, art, and photography history help reveal Varda’s multivalent work, showing the constant purpose and experimentation animating her audiovisual, tactile, and memorial sensibility.” —Ivone Margulies, Professor of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, CUNY
“In this pathbreaking revisionist study, art and cinema historian Rebecca DeRoo uses multiple political and cultural contexts to reframe the existing dialogue about the work and contributions to cinema history made by the New Wave French film director Agnès Varda. Stressing issues that are aesthetic, theoretical, feminist, and political, DeRoo redirects the biographical narratives that have been favored in the literature on Varda, challenges conventional interpretations of Varda's films, and recasts the reception of Varda’s work over the space of six decades as an index to the cultural and political assumptions of those years. In an era when the boundaries between cinema and other art forms have become increasingly blurred, DeRoo’s approach to Varda’s work is a productive and exemplary intersection between cinema studies and art history.” —Norma Broude, Professor of Art History Emerita, American University
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“With extraordinary access to Agnès Varda’s papers and production materials, Rebecca DeRoo’s study uniquely illuminates what Varda called the 'three lives of Agnès'—as photographer, filmmaker, and visual artist. The author insightfully tracks Varda’s generative semantic slippages across different media and also provides a smart reevaluation of the filmmaker’s restless inventiveness. Essentially reframing Varda’s anomalous place in film history, DeRoo’s refined analysis and detailed references to film, art, and photography history help reveal Varda’s multivalent work, showing the constant purpose and experimentation animating her audiovisual, tactile, and memorial sensibility.” —Ivone Margulies, Professor of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, CUNY
“In this pathbreaking revisionist study, art and cinema historian Rebecca DeRoo uses multiple political and cultural contexts to reframe the existing dialogue about the work and contributions to cinema history made by the New Wave French film director Agnès Varda. Stressing issues that are aesthetic, theoretical, feminist, and political, DeRoo redirects the biographical narratives that have been favored in the literature on Varda, challenges conventional interpretations of Varda's films, and recasts the reception of Varda’s work over the space of six decades as an index to the cultural and political assumptions of those years. In an era when the boundaries between cinema and other art forms have become increasingly blurred, DeRoo’s approach to Varda’s work is a productive and exemplary intersection between cinema studies and art history.” —Norma Broude, Professor of Art History Emerita, American University
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- Publisher : University of California Press; First Edition (October 17, 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 248 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0520279417
- ISBN-13 : 978-0520279414
- Item Weight : 14 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.62 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,845,479 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the author
Rebecca J. DeRoo is Professor and Visual Culture Program Director in the School of Communication at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is author of The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art, recipient of the 2007 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies. She co-curated the retrospective Agnès Varda: (Self-)Portraits, Facts and Fiction at the George Eastman Museum (2016). Her book, Agnès Varda between Film, Photography, and Art (2018), was Kraszna-Krausz Book Award Finalist. In 2021, she co-edited with Homay King a thematic issue of Camera Obscura, Future Varda.
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