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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Agnès Varda"”.
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Women Who Return: Revisiting the Figure of Odysseus in Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda
… selected films by Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda, which form an intriguing dialogue in cinema, reflecting the filmmakers’ interests in literature and art. The thesis draws on spatial theory, in the first place Giuliana Bruno’s readings of a ‘body map’ and a ‘body-city’ which link the …
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Women Directors in ‘Global’ Art Cinema: Negotiating Feminism and Representation
… art cinema. Filmmakers such as Germaine Dulac, Agnès Varda and Sally Potter, for instance, have produced significant cinematic oeuvres but due to the field's continuing phallocentricity, they have not enjoyed the critical acclaim of their male peers. Feminist scholarship has focused mainly on …
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An Opposition in Search of Itself: Modern French Cinema and the Algerian War
… explore how filmmakers including Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, and Chris Marker mobilize imagery and discourses unique to the war in order to critique the disciplinary nature of their own modern society. My dissertation challenges the dominant narrative of this influential period in film history as …
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Gesture and the cinéaste: Akerman/Agamben, Varda/Warburg
… and installation work of the artiste-cinéaste, Agnès Varda, using an approach developed from selected writings by the German art historian, Aby Warburg, the majority translated into English for the first time. As with Akerman, Varda’s work insists upon a spectatorship premised on distance, but …
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Reckonings with Loss in the Works of Camille Laurens, Agnès Varda and Sophie Calle
… LOSS IN THE WORKS OF CAMILLE LAURENS, AGNÈS VARDA AND SOPHIE CALLE This thesis considers expressions of grief in works by contemporary women artists. It looks at the duty to reckon with loss, and at how suffering might be articulated beyond linguistic means. The works considered here explore …
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Temporality, Spatiality and Looking in Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) and Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
… Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) and Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) examines the ways in which atypical representations of time and space in cinema can alter the spectator's habitual perceptions, particularly regarding the structuring of looks identified by Laura Mulvey in her …