Description
This fascinating memoir of influential French filmmaker Alice Guy Blaché features a new foreword and provides original insight into one of the industry's most important pioneers. Guy Blaché was not only the world's first female director, producing and directing hundreds of films, but she was also the first of either sex to direct a fictional film.
Author: Anthony Slide
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 03/15/2022
Pages: 210
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d
ISBN13: 9781538165508
ISBN10: 1538165503
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
- History | Europe | France
- Performing Arts | Film | Direction & Production
About the Author
Anthony Slide is the author or editor of more than 200 works on the history of popular entertainment. Among his achievements are the first volumes on early American cinema, the Vitagraph Company, early women directors, the cinema and Ireland, and many more. His books have been honored by the American Library Association as Outstanding Reference Sources of the Year, and by Choice Magazine as Outstanding Academic Books of the Year. In 1990, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by Bowling Green University, at which time he was hailed by Lillian Gish as "our pre-eminent historian of the silent film."
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