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"Over a hundred years after she started making films (which was considerably earlier than D. W. Griffith, Mabel Normand, and Lillian Gish began their careers), the life and work of Alice Guy Blache is still shrouded in myth and controversy.". "Only a fraction of the approximately one thousand films that she directed still exist, and almost half of these have been found very recently. The films are spread out in archives all over the world. Not all of them are available for viewing, even to scholars, and many of them are in desperate need of conservation and preservation.". "It is widely…
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5 editions · 2 languages- Paperback · English · 2003Continuum International Publishing Group · 404 pages · 9780826451576
- Other · English · 2014Bloomsbury Academic & Professional · 408 pages · 9781501302695
- Other · English · 2014Bloomsbury Academic & Professional · 408 pages · 9781501302688
- Other · English · 2002Alice Guy BlachéContinuum · 361 pages · 9780826451583
- Paperback · Spanish · 2006Plot · 480 pages · 9788486702755
BiographyMotion picture producers and directorsCriticism and interpretationFilm criticismPopular culture