Agnes Varda between Film, Photography, and Art

Rebecca J. DeRoo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Performing Arts and Visual Culture at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the author of The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art, recipient of the 2007 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies. She co-curated the retrospective, Agnes Varda: (Self-)Portraits, Facts and Fiction, at the George Eastman Museum (2016).

Acknowledgments

1. Reinterpreting Varda: The Mother of the New Wave Reframes Its Histories
2. Complicating Neorealism and the New Wave: La Pointe Courte
3. Filmic and Feminist Strategies: Questioning Ideals of Happiness in Le Bonheur
4. Reconsidering Contradictions: Feminist Politics and the Musical Genre in L’une chante, l’autre pas
5. The Limits of Documentary: Identity and Urban Transformation in Daguerréotypes
6. Melancholy and Merchandise: Documenting and Displaying Widowhood in L’île et elle
7. Varda Now: Autobiography, Memory, and Retrospective

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