Alice Guy Blaché
Subtitle: cinema pioneer
By: edited by Joan Simon ; with contributions by Jane Gaines ... [et al.].
Contributors: Simon, Joan, 1949-; Gaines, Jane, 1946-; Whitney Museum of American Art.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780300152500
Subjects: Guy, Alice, -- 1873-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation; Guy, Alice, -- 1873-1968 -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Description: 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.
Notes: 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Joan Simon; title: The great adventure : Alice Guy Blaché, Cinema Pioneer / Joan Simon; title: The sage femme of early cinema / Alan Williams; title: Alice Guy Blaché's maternal melodrama: New love and the old (1912) / Jane Gaines; title: The wages of feminism : Alice Guy Blaché and her late feature films / Charles Musser; title: Wonderment-seeing the world through the eyes of Alice Guy Blaché / Kim Tomadjoglou; title: Key events and dates : Alice Guy Blaché / Alison Mcmahan.