The Cinema of Agnès Varda: Resistance and Eclecticism
Delphine Benezet
Abstract
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 book considers her production as a whole, revisiting overlooked films like Mur, Murs and Documenteur (1980–1981), 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 pro ... More
Keywords: Agnès Varda, French New Wave, films, cinema, installations
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780231169752 |
| Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: November 2015 | DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231169752.001.0001 |
