Illuminating Moments: The Films of Alice Guy Blache

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Illuminating Moments: The Films of Alice Guy Blache
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Janelle Dietrick
SeriesThe Life and Work of Alice Guy Blache
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:350
Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 152
Category/GenreIndividual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9781543901436
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher BookBaby
Imprint BookBaby
Publication Date 14 June 2017
Publication Country United States

Description

The stories Alice Guy Blache put on film are the subject of this book. It contains725 synopses including 360 translated from the original French.This book is not a filmography, or a critical review of Alice's films, but a long drink of her stories. It was Alice's love of story that led her to start putting themon film in 1896. This collection may be compared to looking at Alice's bookshelf or unpacking a trunkin her attic. Since she wrote, or had a hand in writing, almost all of the stories she helped put on film, these stories tell us something about her or, at the very least, the times in which she lived.

Author Biography

Janelle Dietrick graduated from U. C. Berkeley with a degree in modern Europeanhistory. She is the author of four books about Alice Guy Blache; Alice & Eiffel: A NewHistory of Early Cinema and the Love Story Kept Secret for a Century, Illuminating Moments: The Films of Alice Guy Blache, La Fee aux Choux: Alice Guy's Garden of Dreams with a foreword by Alice-Guy Blanche Peeters, and Mademoiselle Alice, A Novel.