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Barbara Loden
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Exposition
feminist
film
French-American Foundation Translation Prize
Guardian Best Book of 2017
hybrid writing
Isabelle Huppert
Kate Zambreno
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Les Fugitives
Natasha Lehrer
Nathalie Leger
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Rachel Kushner
Scott Moncrieff Prize
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The White Dress
translation
Wanda
women's writing
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- ISBN 9780993009303
- Dimensions: 180 x 120mm
- Publication Date: 30 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Les Fugitives
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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First published in France in 2012 to critical and popular acclaim, this is the first book about the remarkable American actress and filmmaker Barbara Loden. Loden's 1970 film Wanda is a masterpiece of early cinéma vérité, an anti-Bonnie-and-Clyde road movie about a young woman, adrift in rust-belt Pennsylvania in the early 1960s, who embarks on a crime spree with a small-time crook. How to paint a life, describe a personality? Inspired by the film, a researcher seeks to piece together a portrait of its creator. In her soul-searching homage to the former pin-up girl famously married to Hollywood giant Elia Kazan, the biographer's evocative powers are put to the test. New insights into Loden's sketchy biography remain scarce and the words of Marguerite Duras, Georges Perec, Jean-Luc Godard, Sylvia Plath, Kate Chopin, Herman Melville, Samuel Beckett and W.G. Sebald come to the narrator's rescue. As remembered scenes from Wanda alternate with the droll journal of a flailing research project, personal memories surface, and with them, uncomfortable insights into the inner life of a singular woman who is also, somehow, every woman.
Nathalie Léger is the award-winning author of Exposition, Suite for Barbara Loden and The White Dress, among other short autofictional and nonfiction works. She has curated exhibitions on Roland Barthes and Samuel Beckett for the Centre Pompidou, and, since 2013, is Director of the Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine, an organization dedicated to preserving the archives of modern and contemporary French writers.
