The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agnès Varda

Mary Harrod is Associate Professor of French Studies at The University of Warwick (UK). She is the author of monographs on French filmed romantic comedy and on women's filmmaking in Hollywood, including From France With Love (IB Tauris, 2015). She is co-editor of The Europeanness of European Cinema (IB Tauris, 2014) and two prize-winning anthologies on romance and social bonding in contemporary culture and on women's film and TV production globally, respectively. She is co-editor of French Screen Studies.

Ginette Vincendeau is Professor of Film Studies at Kings College London (UK). She has written extensively on French cinema, notably popular genres, stars and women directors. She is the author of Brigitte Bardot (BFI, 2019), Jean-Pierre Melville (BFI, 2003), La Haine (IB Tauris, 2005), Pepe le Moko (BFI, 1998), Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (Continuum, 2000), and the editor of Film/Literature/Heritage (BFI, 2001), and co-editor of The French New Wave (with Peter Graham, BFI, 3rd edition 2022), Journeys of Desire (with Alastair Phillips, BFI, 2006), Paris in the Cinema (with Alastair Phillips, BFI, 2019). She is co-editor of the journal French Screen Studies.