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==Feminist film production==
#Documentary
#*Do not pretend to "objectivity"
#*Autobiographical (structured like a personal diary)
#[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Realism Socialist Realist]
#*Not "socialist" in an economic sense
#*Derived from 1930s Russia
#**1932: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin Joseph Stalin] decreed "socialist realism" as official policy: "On the Reconstruction of Literary and Art Organizations"
#**Art must support the Revolution; no stylistic experimentation allowed
#*More generally speaking: fiction film from a feminist perspective
#*Feminist morality tales
#*Didactic fiction films
#Women's cinema as counter cinema
#*Rooted in Wollen's principle of "counter cinema," as in Godard's work
#*Classical cinema's form, its style, is seen to be patriarchal.
#*Thus a feminist content requires a feminist style

==Agnès Varda==
==Chronology==
*30 May 1928 born (Brussels)
*Late 1940s: professional still. Photographer
**Working initially in the theater
**For Jean Vilar's Theatre National Populaire
*1951-'61 And then for magazine photo stories
*1954 first short. ''La Point courte''
**Edited by Alain Resnais
**Direct antecedent of the New Wave
*Varda associated with the "literary" elements of n.w.
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rive_Gauche "Left Bank"] or ''Rive Gauche'' intellectuals
***Intellectuals living on the left bank of the Seine River
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouveau_roman ''Le nouveau roman''] (French: "new novel") of Alain Robbe-Grillet & Nathalie Sarraute
*1961 first feature film, ''Cleo from 5 to 7''
*1962 married director [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Demy Jacques Demy]
*1968-'69 worked in U.S.
**Two shorts: ''Uncle Janco'' and ''The Black Panthers'' (about Huey Newton)
***'''''Black Panthers'' on UbuWeb:'''
***[http://www.ubu.com/film/varda.html http://www.ubu.com/film/varda.html]
**One feature: ''Lions Love''
***First film with english-speaking cast
***Gerome Ragni, James Rado, co-authors of ''Hair'', in cast
*Early 1970s: becomes earnestly involved in woman's movement
**Socialist realist feminist films
**''My Body Belongs to Me'' (1972)
***Pro-abortion
**''One Sings, the Other Doesn't'' (1977)
***Two women's parallel lives

With [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Demy Jacques Demy]:

http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T340/VardaDenis/varda03.jpg

==Thematics==
*Interplay of subjectivity and objectivity
**Films in which distinction between objective "reality" and character's inner states are blurred
**Cf. Resnais's ''Hiroshima mon amour''
**E.g., ''The Creatures''
***In which writer's imagination blends with reality
*Closely related: interplay of fiction and documentary
**''Creatures'' is largely improvised and features actors playing their real life roles
*Social and political issues
**Racism
***''Black panthers'' (1968)
**The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution Cuban revolution], led by socialist, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro Fidel Castro]
***''Salute to Cuba'' (1965)
****Over 4,000 of her still photos collaged together
**Vietnam war
***''Far from Vietnam'' episode (1967)
*Feminism
**Women's issues

==Narrative structure==
*Women on a journey
**Both physical and emotional journeys
*Doubled story-line
**Two narratives that twine together
*Narrative experimentation
**Playing with narrative form

==Visual style==
*Mise-en-scene
**Location shooting
**Nonprofessional actors
**''Vagabond'' has a mixed cast
***[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandrine_Bonnaire Sandrine Bonnaire], the protagonist, is a professional
*Cinematography
**Camera movement that does ''not'' follow action, but acts independently
***'''See [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Vagabond01field.php Example 1]''', '''[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Vagabond02tractor.php Example 2]'''
*"Symbolic" use of color and black and white
**E.g., ''Happiness'' and ''The Creatures''

==Bibliography==
*Kuhn, Annette. ''Women's Pictures: Feminism and Cinema''. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.

==External links==
*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/classes/Jbutler/T340/VardaDenis/ Agnès Varda illustrations]
*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T340/Vagabond/index.htm ''Vagabond'' illustrations]
*[http://www.ubu.com/film/varda.html ''Black Panthers'' on UbuWeb]

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 ==External links==
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-*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T340/Vagabond/index.htm ''Vagabond'' illustrations]
+*[http://tvcrit.com/Classes/Jbutler/T340/Vagabond/index.htm ''Vagabond'' illustrations]
 *[http://www.ubu.com/film/varda.html ''Black Panthers'' on UbuWeb]
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Jeremy Butler: added photo of Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy

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