The Sustainable Legacy of Agns Varda: Feminist Practice and Pedagogy

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Drawing especially on the encounters and relationships that defined her exceptional career, The Sustainable Legacy of Agns Varda outlines a sustainable legacy for the celebrated director and visual artist. Over nine chapters, it unpacks how creation, connection, and environment form the core of Vardas artistry, which centers foremost on relationships with her family, with other artists, even with passersby she would meet in her travels around the world. Also celebrating her feminist legacy, the chapters cover a wide range, from the classic Clo from 5 to 7 (1962) to documentaries The Beaches of Agns (2008) and Faces Places (2017) as well as selected art installations. The books final section is dedicated to teaching Vardas work; here, ten scholars from around the world consider how Vardas art and feminist pedagogies offer unique ways to bring crucial concepts into the classroom. By seeking a sustainable praxis to discuss and teach Vardas work, and by making pedagogical concerns an explicit part of this approach, this book argues that Vardas insights about the nature of creative work will inspire new generations of viewers and audiences.

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The Sustainable Legacy of Agns Varda constitutes a magnificent critical tribute to the work of a filmmaker who turned cinema into an art of encountering. Arguing that her legacy extends beyond her filmography, through an ethical and political vision of art worth examining, the contributors of this book remained faithful to the memory of a woman and an artist committed to her time. -- Luc Vancheri, Lumire University Lyon 2, France
Inquisitive moving-image artist par excellence, Agns Varda receives here an expansive and multifaceted treatment, one that matches the range and generosity of her own work. These essays revise and open out our understanding of a cinema that both depicts and embodies sustenance. -- Girish Shambu, Canisius College, Buffalo, USA
In framing its collection of essays in terms of sustainability, The Sustainable Legacy of Agns Varda offers a timely intervention in feminist criticism in visual studies. Vardas work lends itself beautifully to these eco-critical analyses, which collectively sustain meticulous attention to Vardas elaborations of embodiment, space, and place across her oeuvre. -- Sharon Willis, University of Rochester, USA

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat teaches film and media studies at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Feride iekoglu is Director of Graduate Programs in Film and Television at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.