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Women filmmakers-Alice Guy - Coggle Diagram
Women filmmakers-Alice Guy
cinema of attractions
from 1890's to early 1910's
Tom Gunningl states the cinema of attractions directly solicits spectator attention, inciting visual curiosity and supplying pleasure through an exciting spectacle- a unique event, whether fictional or documentary, that is of interest in itself
first film
23 years old, asked to borrow a camera to make her own film
told Gaumont and Lumiere, "it seems to me we could do something better"
she rented costumes, hired an actor
film is a french fairytale
what is the historical significance?
it is potentially the first fiction film
she became the main producer for the film studio Gaumont
marginalisation
in the book A History of Narrative Film, she was barely mentioned, hardly two sentencesl, even though she made 1000 films
from artisanal to industrial production
she played a key role in the production of film becoming an industrial system
working as the head of production as well as a director
involved in the professionalisation of film
both an executive and filmmaker
the invention of the directorl
she left the handlng of the camera to others
she single-handedyl established the concept of the director as a seperate entity in the filmmaking process
characteristic themes
dance films
she had lots of interest in movementl
family melodraml
films about children and parents
lots of children feature in her films
fantasy
comedy
social commentary
she made films about immigrant identity, social class and violence against women
made the first film where the whole cast is black
feminist filmmaker
Musser describes Alice Guy as a woman's director