| Description |
1 online resource (1 PDF (xi, 187 pages)) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Contemporary film directors |
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Contemporary film directors.
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| Bibliography |
Includes filmography (pages 157-170), bibliographical references (pages 171-177) and index. |
| Contents |
New wave cineaste to digital gleaner : change and continuity in the work of Agnes Varda -- Planning and precision : La pointe courte -- Structure and digression : the early short documentaries -- Cultivating the new wave spectator : Cleo from 5 to 7 -- Improvisation and formal patterning : Vagabond -- Social criticism and the self-portrait : The gleaners and I -- From cinema to the gallery : Patatutopia and L'île et elle -- Looking backward, moving forward : The beaches of Agnes -- Conclusion -- Interview. |
| Summary |
Both a precursor to and a critical member of the French New Wave, Agnes Varda weaves documentary and fiction into tapestries that portray distinctive places and complex human beings. Critics and aficionados have celebrated Varda's independence and originality since the New Wave touchstone Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) brought her a level of international acclaim she has yet to relinquish. Film historian Kelley Conway traces Varda's works from her 1954 debut La Pointe Courte through a varied career that includes nonfiction and fiction shorts and features, installation art, and the triumphant 2008 documentary The Beaches of Agnes . Drawing on Varda's archives and conversations with the filmmaker, Conway focuses on the concrete details of how Varda makes films: a project's emergence, its development and the shifting forms of its screenplay, the search for financing, and the execution from casting through editing and exhibition. In the process, she explores the artistic consistencies and bold changes in Varda's career and reveals how one woman charted a nontraditional trajectory through independent filmmaking. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Varda, Agnès, 1928-2019 -- Interviews.
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Varda, Agnès, 1928-2019 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Varda, Agnès, 1928- (OCoLC)fst00275550
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Motion pictures -- France.
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Motion picture producers and directors -- France -- Biography.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film& Video -- History & Criticism.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Motion picture producers and directors. (OCoLC)fst01027225
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Motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01027285
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France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Interviews. (OCoLC)fst01423832
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Electronic book.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780252039720 (DLC) 2015950937 |
| ISBN |
9780252097829 (electronic book) |
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