- Germaine Dulac
Germaine Dulac (
17 November 1882 ,Amiens ,France -20 July 1942 ,Paris ) was a French film director and early film theorist.Famously, she directed "The Seashell and the Clergyman " (1928), based on a scenario byAntonin Artaud . This film has been credited as the first surrealist film, released shortly before "Un Chien Andalou " (1929) byLuis Buñuel andSalvador Dalí . However, other scholars, including Ephraim Katz, consider her an Impressionist filmmaker.Her other films include "
La Souriante Madame Beudet " (1922).Bibliography
* Wendy Dozoretz, "Germaine Dulac : Filmmaker, Polemicist, Theoretician", (
New York University Dissertation, 1982), 362 pp.* Charles Ford, "Germaine Dulac : 1882 - 1942", Paris : Avant-Scène du Cinéma, 1968, 48 p. (Serie: Anthologie du cinéma ; 31)
* Lee Jamieson, 'The Lost Prophet of Cinema: The Film Theory of Antonin Artaud' in "Senses of Cinema", Issue 44, July 2007 [ [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/07/44/film-theory-antonin-artaud.html The Lost Prophet of Cinema: The Film Theory of Antonin Artaud ] at www.sensesofcinema.com]
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Women's Cinema
* "" (DVD collection which includes "Seashell and the Clergyman")
*Avant-garde
*Experimental film
*Cinema pur External links
* [http://www.musee-orsay.fr/ORSAY/orsayNews/PROGRAM.NSF/0/a26bb248ab6e79afc1256eda0030efd9?OpenDocument Rétrospective Germaine Dulac]
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* [http://www.ubu.com/film/dulac_coquille.html The Seashell and the Clergyman at UbuWeb]
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