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Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations

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Description for Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations Paperback. Explores the artistic and sociopolitical currents that shaped Germaine Dulac's approach to cinema while interrogating the ground breaking techniques and strategies she used to critique conservative notions of gender and sexuality. Series: Women & Film History International. Num Pages: 296 pages, 32 black & white photographs, filmography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 550.

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 a major influence on twentieth century film history and theory.

In Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations, Tami Williams makes unprecedented use of the filmmaker's personal papers, production files, and archival film prints to produce the ... Read more


This vivid portrait will be of interest to general readers, as well as to scholars of cinema and visual culture, performance, French history, women’s studies, queer cinema, in addition to studies of narrative avant-garde, experimental, and documentary film history and theory.


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Product Details

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Women & Film History International
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252079979
SKU
V9780252079979
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About Tami Williams
Tami Williams is an assistant professor of English and film studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Reviews for Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations
Research in the Humanities Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2015. “Williams's book is exemplary in tying together the multiple personal, political, social, and artistic strains running through Dulac's oeuvre. Although it may be surprising that we are only now getting the first book-length consideration of Dulac's career, it was well worth the wait.”
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