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Alice Guy Blaché : cinema pioneer / edited by Joan Simon ; with contributions by Jane Gaines ... [et al.].

Title
Alice Guy Blaché : cinema pioneer / edited by Joan Simon ; with contributions by Jane Gaines ... [et al.].
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press ; New York : in association with Whitney Museum of American Art, c2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Simon, Joan, 1949-
  • Gaines, Jane, 1946-
  • Whitney Museum of American Art
Description
xx, 148 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Summary
Alice Guy Blaché was the first woman to produce & direct motion pictures, first in Paris for Gaumont & later in the US, where she founded her own company. this volume celebrates her achievements as a pioneer of motion picture techniques & technologies.
Subject
  • Guy, Alice, 1873-1968 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Guy, Alice, 1873-1968 > Exhibitions
  • Women motion picture producers and directors > 20th century
Genre/Form
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
Note
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibition Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer at the Whitney Museum of American Art, organized by Joan Simon. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York November 6, 2009-January 24, 2010.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Includes filmography.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface / Joan Simon -- The great adventure : Alice Guy Blaché, Cinema Pioneer / Joan Simon -- The sage femme of early cinema / Alan Williams -- Madame Blaché in America : director, producer, studio owner / Alison McMahan -- Madame Blaché's maternal melodrama : New love and the old (1912) / Jane Gaines -- The wages of feminism : Alice Guy Blaché and her late feature films / Charles Musser -- Wonderment--seeing the world through the eyes of Alice Guy Blaché / Kim Tomadjoglou -- Key events and dates : Alice Guy Blaché / Alison McMahan.
ISBN
  • 9780300152500 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0300152507 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2009020144
OCLC
  • 317471816
  • SCSB-9988369
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library