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| − | ==Feminist film production== | + | == Summary == |
| − | #Documentary
| + | Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy. |
| − | #*Do not pretend to "objectivity"
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| − | #*Autobiographical (structured like a personal diary)
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| − | #[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Realism Socialist Realist]
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| − | #*Not "socialist" in an economic sense
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| − | #*Derived from 1930s Russia
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| − | #**1932: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin Joseph Stalin] decreed "socialist realism" as official policy: "On the Reconstruction of Literary and Art Organizations"
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| − | #**Art must support the Revolution; no stylistic experimentation allowed
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| − | #*More generally speaking: fiction film from a feminist perspective
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| − | #*Feminist morality tales
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| − | #*Didactic fiction films
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| − | #Women's cinema as counter cinema
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| − | #*Rooted in Wollen's principle of "counter cinema," as in Godard's work
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| − | #*Classical cinema's form, its style, is seen to be patriarchal.
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| − | #*Thus a feminist content requires a feminist style
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| − | ==Agnès Varda==
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| − | ==Chronology==
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| − | *30 May 1928 born (Brussels)
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| − | *Late 1940s: professional still. Photographer
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| − | **Working initially in the theater
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| − | **For Jean Vilar's Theatre National Populaire
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| − | *1951-'61 And then for magazine photo stories
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| − | *1954 first short. ''La Point courte''
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| − | **Edited by Alain Resnais
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| − | **Direct antecedent of the New Wave
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| − | *Varda associated with the "literary" elements of n.w.
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| − | **[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rive_Gauche "Left Bank"] or ''Rive Gauche'' intellectuals
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| − | ***Intellectuals living on the left bank of the Seine River
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| − | **[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouveau_roman ''Le nouveau roman''] (French: "new novel") of Alain Robbe-Grillet & Nathalie Sarraute
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| − | *1961 first feature film, ''Cleo from 5 to 7''
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| − | *1962 married director [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Demy Jacques Demy]
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| − | *1968-'69 worked in U.S.
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| − | **Two shorts: ''Uncle Janco'' and ''The Black Panthers'' (about Huey Newton)
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| − | ***'''''Black Panthers'' on UbuWeb:'''
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| − | ***[http://www.ubu.com/film/varda.html http://www.ubu.com/film/varda.html]
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| − | **One feature: ''Lions Love''
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| − | ***First film with english-speaking cast
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| − | ***Gerome Ragni, James Rado, co-authors of ''Hair'', in cast
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| − | *Early 1970s: becomes earnestly involved in woman's movement
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| − | **Socialist realist feminist films
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| − | **''My Body Belongs to Me'' (1972)
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| − | ***Pro-abortion
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| − | **''One Sings, the Other Doesn't'' (1977)
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| − | ***Two women's parallel lives
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| − | With [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Demy Jacques Demy]:
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| − | http://tvcrit.com/Classes/Jbutler/T340/VardaDenis/varda03.jpg
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| − | ==Thematics==
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| − | *Interplay of subjectivity and objectivity
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| − | **Films in which distinction between objective "reality" and character's inner states are blurred
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| − | **Cf. Resnais's ''Hiroshima mon amour''
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| − | **E.g., ''The Creatures''
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| − | ***In which writer's imagination blends with reality
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| − | *Closely related: interplay of fiction and documentary
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| − | **''Creatures'' is largely improvised and features actors playing their real life roles
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| − | *Social and political issues
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| − | **Racism
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| − | ***''Black panthers'' (1968)
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| − | **The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution Cuban revolution], led by socialist, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro Fidel Castro]
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| − | ***''Salute to Cuba'' (1965)
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| − | ****Over 4,000 of her still photos collaged together
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| − | **Vietnam war
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| − | ***''Far from Vietnam'' episode (1967)
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| − | *Feminism
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| − | **Women's issues
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| − | ==Narrative structure==
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| − | *Women on a journey
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| − | **Both physical and emotional journeys
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| − | *Doubled story-line
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| − | **Two narratives that twine together
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| − | *Narrative experimentation
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| − | **Playing with narrative form
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| − | ==Visual style==
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| − | *Mise-en-scene
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| − | **Location shooting
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| − | **Nonprofessional actors
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| − | **''Vagabond'' has a mixed cast
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| − | ***[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandrine_Bonnaire Sandrine Bonnaire], the protagonist, is a professional
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| − | *Cinematography
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| − | **Camera movement that does ''not'' follow action, but acts independently
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| − | ***'''See [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Vagabond01field.php Example 1]''', '''[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Vagabond02tractor.php Example 2]'''
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| − | *"Symbolic" use of color and black and white
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| − | **E.g., ''Happiness'' and ''The Creatures''
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| − | ==Bibliography==
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| − | *Kuhn, Annette. ''Women's Pictures: Feminism and Cinema''. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
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| − | ==External links==
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| − | *[http://tvcrit.com/Classes/Jbutler/T340/VardaDenis/ Agnès Varda illustrations]
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| − | *[http://tvcrit.com/Classes/Jbutler/T340/Vagabond/index.htm ''Vagabond'' illustrations]
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| − | *[http://www.ubu.com/film/varda.html ''Black Panthers'' on UbuWeb]
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| − | [[Category:JCM312 Lecture]]
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