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Alice Guy : first lady of film

Title
Alice Guy : first lady of film / Catel & Bocquet ; art by Catel Muller ; written by José-Louis Bocquet ; translated by Edward Gauvin.
Author
Catel
Publication
  • London : SelfMadeHero, 2022.
  • © 2021

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Additional Authors
  • Bocquet, José-Louis
  • Gauvin, Edward
Description
392 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
The inspiring story of Alice Guy, the first female movie director in film history, chronicles her contribution to the birth of cinema in France in the late 19th century. In 1895 the Lumïre brothers invented the cinematograph. Less than a year later, 23-year-old Alice Guy, the first female filmmaker in cinema history, made The Cabbage Fairy, a 60-second movie, for Ľon Gaumont, and would go on to direct more than 300 films before 1922. Her life is a shadow history of early cinema, the chronicle of an art form coming into its own. A free and independent woman who rubbed shoulders with masters such as Georges Mľïs and the Lumïres, she was the first to define the professions of screenwriter and producer. She directed the first feminist satire, then the first sword-and-sandal epic, before crossing the Atlantic in 1907 to the United States and becoming the first woman to found her own production company. Guy died in 1969, excluded from the annals of film history. In 2011 Martin Scorsese honored this cinematic visionary, ?forgotten by the industry she had helped create,? describing her as ?a filmmaker of rare sensitivity, with a remarkable poetic eye and an extraordinary feel for locations.? The same can be said of Catel and Bocquet?s luminous account of her life.
Uniform Title
Alice Guy. English
Alternative Title
Alice Guy.
Subject
  • Guy, Alice, 1873-1968 > Comic books, strips, etc
  • Guy, Alice, 1873-1968
  • Motion picture producers and directors > France > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc
  • Women motion picture producers and directors > France > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc
  • Motion picture producers and directors
  • Women motion picture producers and directors
  • Comic books, strips, etc
  • France
Genre/Form
  • Biographical comics.
  • Comics (Graphic works)
  • Graphic novels.
  • Nonfiction comics.
  • Biographies.
Note
  • Chiefly illustrations.
  • Translated from the French.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
Call Number
MWES (Guy, A.) 23-664
ISBN
  • 1914224035
  • 9781914224034
OCLC
1262966281
Author
Catel, artist.
Title
Alice Guy : first lady of film / Catel & Bocquet ; art by Catel Muller ; written by José-Louis Bocquet ; translated by Edward Gauvin.
Publisher
London : SelfMadeHero, 2022.
Copyright Date
© 2021
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
Local Note
TRANSLATION OF FRENCH BIOGRAPHICAL GRAPHIC NOVEL ABOUT EARLY FILMMAKER. DIST. BY HARRY N. ABRAMS.
Added Author
Bocquet, José-Louis, author.
Gauvin, Edward, translator.
Research Call Number
MWES (Guy, A.) 23-664
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