Flitterman-Lewis explores the power of the sunflower signalling transformations of self and art in Varda’s six-decade career.
Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
Sandy Flitterman-Lewis is an internationally recognised scholar on Agnès Varda. Her book To Desire Differently: Feminism and French Cinema (2nded, Columbia UP, 1996; 1st ed, 1990) was the first sustained analysis of Varda’s career in English and has proved foundational for subsequent work on the filmmaker. She is one of four founding editors of Camera Obscura and has essays in two special issues on Chantal Akerman and Agnès Varda. Her work on these filmmakers, as well as on Germaine Dulac, has contributed to the formation of a feminist aesthetics of the cinema and the designation of a female cinematic voice.
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