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Postcards in Agnès Varda's cinema
Between Still and Moving Images, 2012
Book chapter published in Laurent Guido/Olivier Lugon (ed.), Between Still and Moving Images, John Libbey Publishing, New Barnet, 2012, p. 275-289 [published in French in 2010]
International Journal of Human Culture Studies, 2018
Annie Proulx's first novel Postcards is a saga of the disintegration of a rural New England family, which is so realistically rendered that any connection with Jacques Derrida's philosophical theory of the post in The Post Card seems unlikely to exist. At the same time, it is evident that the novel is committed to the quiddity of the postcard as a medium that is simultaneously postal and postmodern. Through the clever use of graphically presented patchwork postcards, the novel epitomizes the economical and cultural transfiguration of the twentieth century America. In Derrida's postal theory, the postcard marks the end of the age of the postal system that transmits documents. This paper argues that what the postcards in the eponymous novel want to say is how Derridian "postcardization" corresponds to postmodernization at the most basic and personal level. The condition of Postcards may not be manifestly postcolonial, and the epistolary space is only partial, but the idea of the postmodern postal principle prevails in the novel, which registers the diasporic flux of people, place, and time with no destination whatsoever.
Area Abierta , 2019
Postcards are prominent throughout Varda's oeuvre and she has displayed parts of her postcard collections on several occasions in her films and video installations. Her movie in which postcards play the most important narrative role is One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1976). As researchers in the field of postcard studies have pointed out, postcards are not only a means of communication, but also a sign of life or a confirmation of friendship, as well as a souvenir or a gift. The objective of this article is to reflect on how the self-contained episodes in some of Varda's later non-fiction films, The Gleaners and I… Two Years Later (2002) and her five-part documentary Agnes Varda: From Here to There (2008-2011), can be regarded as a sign of friendship or as souvenir. And last but not least, whether and in what way could one also appreciate Varda's films as a gift.
Stoic and Sentimental: The Emotional Work of the Edwardian Greetings Postcard
Journal of New Zealand Studies, 2016
For both Edwardian migrants and First World War soldiers, communicating home involved a choice as to the appropriate emotional regimes to use. Should they display stoic reserve, or communicate sentimental feeling? Research on correspondence has normally focused on letters, but this paper examines how emotion was dealt with through the multimodal medium of the greetings postcard. It argues that whilst handwritten texts on postcards remained primarily stoic, the prepackaged visual vocabulary on greetings postcards allowed users to send strongly emotional arguments for the maintenance of their relationships without ever having to put these into their own words. Postcards, it seems, gave the Edwardians the option of being both stoic and sentimental.