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"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.

Varda, Agns̈, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Feminism and motion pictures --- New wave films --- History and criticism. --- Varda, Agnès, --- Women motion picture producers and directors --- Nouvelle vague --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General. --- Neue Welle --- New wave --- Frankreich --- Film --- Women moving-picture producers and directors --- Motion picture producers and directors --- Women in the motion picture industry --- New wave (Motion pictures) --- New wave cinema --- Nouvelle vague (Motion pictures) --- Nouvelles vagues (Motion pictures) --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures and feminism --- ART / European. --- ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945). --- Feminism and motion pictures. --- Motion picture producers and directors. --- New wave films. --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film. --- Performing Arts. --- Criticism and interpretation --- History and criticism --- Varda, Agnès, --- France. --- Varda, Agnès --- Art. --- Film. --- Photography.