Agnès Varda: Interviews
T. Jefferson Kline (Ed.)
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Description for Agnès Varda: Interviews
Paperback. Collected interviews with the French filmmaker who is sometimes called the "Mother of the New Wave" Editor(s): Kline, Professor T Jefferson (Boston University, USA). Series: Conversations with Filmmakers (Hardcover). Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APB; APFB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 381.
Over nearly sixty years, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the ""Mother of the New Wave"" but suffered for many years for never having been completely accepted by the cinematic establishment in France. Varda's first film, La Pointe Courte (1954), displayed many of the characteristics of the two later films that launched the New Wave, Truffaut's 400 Blows and Godard's Breathless. In a low-budget film, using (as yet) unknown actors and working entirely outside the prevailing studio system, Varda completely abandoned ... Read more
Over nearly sixty years, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the ""Mother of the New Wave"" but suffered for many years for never having been completely accepted by the cinematic establishment in France. Varda's first film, La Pointe Courte (1954), displayed many of the characteristics of the two later films that launched the New Wave, Truffaut's 400 Blows and Godard's Breathless. In a low-budget film, using (as yet) unknown actors and working entirely outside the prevailing studio system, Varda completely abandoned ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Condition
New
Series
Conversations with Filmmakers Series
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781496802491
SKU
V9781496802491
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About T. Jefferson Kline (Ed.)
T. Jefferson Kline, Brookline, Massachusetts, is professor of French at Boston University. He is the author of several books, including Unraveling French Cinema: From L' Atalante to Caché, and he is coeditor of Bernardo Bertolucci: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi).
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