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The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché
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2022
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The fascinating memoir of influential French filmmaker Alice Guy Blaché, one of the industry’s most significant pioneers and a trailblazer for female directors.
Alice Guy Blaché (1873-1968) is a unique pioneer of the motion picture, being not only a female filmmaker but also one of the first, if not the first, to make a narrative film. Her career spanned from 1894, when she became secretary to the legendary Léon Gaumont, through 1920, working in both her native France and the United States. In all, she was responsible for approximately 1,000 films, possibly more than any other director or producer.
The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché was first published in 1976, and to a large extent led to her rediscovery after decades of relative obscurity. Guy Blaché writes of her beginnings in the motion picture industry, her direction not only of silent films but also some of the earliest synchronized sound motion pictures, her marriage and journey to the United States, the founding of her own studio in New Jersey, her fame, and the sad journey into obscurity in the 1920s. Her story reveals both the opportunities and the ultimate rejection facing a woman director in the early years of the twentieth century.
These first-hand and original memoirs are enhanced with a complete filmography, an epilogue by her daughter Simone, a brief biography of her director husband, Herbert Blaché, a remembrance by feminist actress/writer Madame Olga Petrova, a sampling of contemporary articles on the director, and a new foreword by editor Anthony Slide. Through it all, Alice Guy Blaché’s personal charm, good humor, and modesty shines.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-6550-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-6551-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
180
Product type
Edited Book
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CONTENTS No access
FOREWORD No access
PROLOGUE No access
CHAPTER ONE No access Pages 1 - 14
CHAPTER TWO No access Pages 15 - 22
CHAPTER THREE No access Pages 23 - 31
CHAPTER FOUR No access Pages 32 - 47
CHAPTER FIVE No access Pages 48 - 60
CHAPTER SIX No access Pages 61 - 76
CHAPTER SEVEN No access Pages 77 - h
CHAPTER EIGHT No access Pages 85 - 103
EPILOGUE No access Pages 104 - 106
Appendix A: A REMEMBRANCE No access Pages 107 - 110
