Alice Guy Blache: Cinema Pioneer edited by Joan Simon, Yale University Press, 2009.
The Great Adventure: Alice Guy Blache, CInema Pioneer by Joan Simon
Discusses Blache's biography with focus on her ability as a storyteller.
Page 11, Serpentine dance films
Page 13, "Madame a des envies or The Missus has her Cravings "Where a pregnat woman satisfies her food cravings ... [and] other sexual cravings..."
Page 15, "A Fool and His Money... made with an all black cast"
The Sage Femme of Early Cinema by Alan Williams
Page 41, "The Alcoholic or Drunken Mattress, or The Epileptic Mattress" best of her comedies -- deadpan performance of cross-dressed leading lady. "Guy had discovered a major truth of film comedy: things were much funnier if you don't laugh at your own jokes"
The Making of an American Citizen (1912) about immigrant experience and spousal abuse.
Madame Blache in America: Director, Producer, Studio Owner by Alison McMahan
Page 48, "Alice Guy directed more than 150 phonoscenes (as the sound films for the chronophone were called) between 1902 adn 1907" Audio was pre-recorded onto cylinders and performers would lip sync while filmed.
"As Alan Williams has noted, 'until vitaphone, in fact, the history of sound filmmaking is a history of repeated failure, not of technology, but of marketing'"
Madame Blache's Maternal Melodrama: New Love and the Old (1912) by Jane Gaines
no notes
The Wages of Feminism: Alice Guy Blache and Her Late Feature Films by Charles Musser
page 88-89, copy these pages, very interesting notes idealizing and vilifying the artist.
Wonderment -- Seeing the World Through the Eyes of Alice Guy Blache by Kim Tomadjoglou
Discusses restoration and archiving and the notes and remnants of her colourization.
The Great Adventure: Alice Guy Blache, CInema Pioneer by Joan Simon
Discusses Blache's biography with focus on her ability as a storyteller.
Page 11, Serpentine dance films
Page 13, "Madame a des envies or The Missus has her Cravings "Where a pregnat woman satisfies her food cravings ... [and] other sexual cravings..."
Page 15, "A Fool and His Money... made with an all black cast"
The Sage Femme of Early Cinema by Alan Williams
Page 41, "The Alcoholic or Drunken Mattress, or The Epileptic Mattress" best of her comedies -- deadpan performance of cross-dressed leading lady. "Guy had discovered a major truth of film comedy: things were much funnier if you don't laugh at your own jokes"
The Making of an American Citizen (1912) about immigrant experience and spousal abuse.
Page 48, "Alice Guy directed more than 150 phonoscenes (as the sound films for the chronophone were called) between 1902 adn 1907" Audio was pre-recorded onto cylinders and performers would lip sync while filmed.
"As Alan Williams has noted, 'until vitaphone, in fact, the history of sound filmmaking is a history of repeated failure, not of technology, but of marketing'"
no notes
The Wages of Feminism: Alice Guy Blache and Her Late Feature Films by Charles Musser
page 88-89, copy these pages, very interesting notes idealizing and vilifying the artist.
Wonderment -- Seeing the World Through the Eyes of Alice Guy Blache by Kim Tomadjoglou
Discusses restoration and archiving and the notes and remnants of her colourization.
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