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- Title
Teaching L'Opéra-Mouffe (1958).
- Authors
Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen
- Abstract
This article describes the advantages of teaching Agnès Varda's early short film L'Opéra-Mouffe, known in English as Diary of a Pregnant Woman, in an introductory course on film form. This award-winning, sixteen-minute film offers a compelling demonstration of the core characteristics of the essay film, along with readily teachable examples of visual metaphor, cinematography, sound, and editing. Its cultural and auteurist contexts can also complement a variety of curricular topics, including the French New Wave and Left Bank creators, post-war France, and feminist filmmaking. Finally, its focus on Varda's personal experience of pregnancy also makes L'Opéra-Mouffe an ideal vehicle to introduce radical feminist pedagogies that recognize and value personal experience as a valid way of knowing about the world.
- Subjects
VARDA, Agnes, 1928-2019; RADICAL feminism; DIARY (Literary form); METAPHOR; CRITICAL pedagogy; SHORT films; CINEMATOGRAPHY; FILMMAKING
- Publication
Short Film Studies, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 1, p97
- ISSN
2042-7824
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/sfs_00070_1