Agnes Varda Between Film, Photography, and Art - by Rebecca J Deroo (Paperback)

Agnès Varda between Film, Photography, and Art is a groundbreaking book that offers a fresh perspective on the work of the prolific French filmmaker, photographer, and artist Agnès Varda.

Drawing upon interviews with Varda herself, as well as unparalleled access to her archives, this extensively researched book provides new frameworks for understanding one of the most versatile talents in twentieth and twenty-first century culture. The author, Rebecca J.

DeRoo, offers a deftly argued and engagingly written study that challenges conventional interpretations of Varda's films, recasts the reception of her work over six decades, and demonstrates how she actively engaged and subtly broadened some of the most advanced aesthetic and political discourse of her day. Through a richly interdisciplinary approach, DeRoo constructs new frameworks for understanding Varda's work as a projection of cultural history that illuminates multiple disciplines, including art history, cinema studies, visual culture, and modern French history.

This book is a must-read for researchers interested in Varda and in French cinema more widely, as well as for anyone looking to gain a deeper understanding of the complex commentary on broader aesthetic, theoretical, feminist, and political discussions that permeates Varda's work. With extraordinary access to Varda's papers and production materials, DeRoo insightfully tracks Varda's generative semantic slippages across different media, offering new insights into the filmmaker's restless inventiveness and creative genius.

The book also provides a smart reevaluation of Varda's work, challenging established readings of her films and recasting the reception of her work over six decades as an index to the cultural and political assumptions of those years