Agnès Varda and the Reinvention of the Flâneuse

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dc.contributorButler, Paul
dc.contributorCremins, Robert
dc.contributorLambeth, Laurie
dc.contributor.authorZidon, Naomi G.
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-10T17:43:58Z
dc.date.available2021-09-10T17:43:58Z
dc.date.issued2021-05
dc.description.abstractThis interdisciplinary thesis examines Agnès Varda’s inhabitation of the flâneuse in the city space, the national space, and the international space. Varda goes beyond showing a character as a flâneuse, but is the flâneuse herself. The flâneuse is a female wanderer who observes the cityscape. The term originates from the male wanderer, the flâneur. Varda extends flânerie beyond the cityscapes and goes into unfamiliar territories. This work closely analyzes Varda’s narrative and documentary films that take place in Paris, the French countryside, California, Iran, and Cuba. By studying these films, the thesis reveals Varda’s relationship with psychogeography, feminism, and space. Ultimately, the thesis will lead to an understanding of the essence of the female perspective and of how the female gaze observes the changes that occur around her and the subject as she documents it through film. Varda embodies this idea as she moves from portraying the flâneuse by following the rules of flânerie to becoming the flâneuse by breaking all the rules of flânerie and presenting other scenarios in which flânerie can take place.
dc.description.departmentEnglish, Department of
dc.description.departmentHonors College
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10657/8199
dc.language.isoen
dc.language.isofr
dc.relation.ispartofSenior Honors Theses
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dc.subjectFlâneuse
dc.subjectFlânerie
dc.subjectFlâneur
dc.subjectPsychogeography
dc.subjectSpace
dc.subjectDocumentary
dc.subjectNarrative
dc.subjectFilm studies
dc.titleAgnès Varda and the Reinvention of the Flâneuse
dc.typeHonors Thesis
dc.type.dcmiText
thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
thesis.degree.levelBachelors
thesis.degree.nameBachelor of Arts

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