The Establishment of Female Imagery in Agnès Varda’s Film “Vagabond”

With the advancement of film studies and theory in China, theoretical directions such as the establishment of female perspectives and female imagery have become increasingly significant. Research on female directors within the French New Wave movement will be strengthened and occupy a larger proportion. In the past, understanding of feminist aspects within the New Wave was largely confined to interview materials with Agnès Varda, lacking an in-depth exploration of the female characters in her works and the intended meanings they conveyed. This paper intends to adopt textual analysis, visual language analysis, and sociocultural context analysis to investigate these issues and proposes solutions to address some of the methods employed by Varda in establishing female imagery. It is hoped that this study will contribute to the development of research on the portrayal of female imagery in Varda’s works within the context of the French New Wave, and promote an increased proportion of feminist perspectives in Chinese film studies.