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Examining what I believe to be metatextual commentary on the inherently chemical nature of film in Agnes Varda's 1966 film Daguerrotypes.
00:00 Introduction
00:50 Introducing Agnes Varda
01:56 Introducing Daguerrotypes
03:03 Analyzing metalepsis in the film
04:31 On daguerrotypes
06:40 Summarizing the chemical analogy
07:06 Other directions
08:00 Conclusion
Works cited
Ágnes Pethő , "Intermediality as Metalepsis in the “Cinécriture”
of Agnès Varda". researchgate.net/publication/315078417_Intermediality_as_Metalepsis_in_the_Cinecriture_of_Agnes_Varda
Emma Jackson, "The eyes of Agne`s Varda: portraiture, cine´criture and the filmic ethnographic eye".
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Mirrors with Memory: The Magic of Daguerreotypes". https://www.artic.edu/articles/944/mirrors-with-memory-the-magic-of-daguerreotypes
National Science and Media Museum, "Faster photographs: Electroplate and the daguerrotype". scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/faster-photographs-electroplate-daguerrotype
Bregt Lameris, "Feeling Colour: Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture, 1950s–1960s". openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0380
Eastman Kodak feature on Daguerrotypes:
youtube.com/watch?v=d932Q6jYRg8
Clip of Jane B. par Agnes V.:
youtube.com/watch?v=i3T4dLZLIxU
Examining what I believe to be metatextual commentary on the inherently chemical nature of film in Agnes Varda's 1966 film Daguerrotypes.
00:00 Introduction
00:50 Introducing Agnes Varda
01:56 Introducing Daguerrotypes
03:03 Analyzing metalepsis in the film
04:31 On daguerrotypes
06:40 Summarizing the chemical analogy
07:06 Other directions
08:00 Conclusion
Works cited
Ágnes Pethő , "Intermediality as Metalepsis in the “Cinécriture”
of Agnès Varda". researchgate.net/publication/315078417_Intermediality_as_Metalepsis_in_the_Cinecriture_of_Agnes_Varda
Emma Jackson, "The eyes of Agne`s Varda: portraiture, cine´criture and the filmic ethnographic eye".
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Mirrors with Memory: The Magic of Daguerreotypes". https://www.artic.edu/articles/944/mirrors-with-memory-the-magic-of-daguerreotypes
National Science and Media Museum, "Faster photographs: Electroplate and the daguerrotype". scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/faster-photographs-electroplate-daguerrotype
Bregt Lameris, "Feeling Colour: Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture, 1950s–1960s". openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0380
Eastman Kodak feature on Daguerrotypes:
youtube.com/watch?v=d932Q6jYRg8
Clip of Jane B. par Agnes V.:
youtube.com/watch?v=i3T4dLZLIxU
