Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations

by Tami Williams

Book Overview

Best known for directing the Impressionist classic The Smiling Madame Beudet and the first Surrealist film The Seashell and the Clergyman, Germaine Dulac, feminist and pioneer of 1920s French avant-garde cinema, made close to thirty fiction films as well as numerous documentaries and newsreels. Through her filmmaking, writing, and cine-club activism, Dulac's passionate defense of the cinema as a lyrical art and social practice had...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252079973
• ISBN13: 9780252079979
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"