Description
About the Author
Alison McMahan is an award-winning screenwriter, author, and filmmaker. She is the president of Homunculus Productions, LLC. Her most recent film is Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs (2010) narrated by Sam Waterston. She is currently in post-production on the feature documentary The Eight Faces of Jane (2013) and the short documentary Gluteus Maxximus (2012). She has over twenty years of experience in film production, both in the U.S. and abroad, producing, directing and writing industrials, training films, and short fiction films. More information on her film work can be found at www.HomunculusProds.com. She is the author the award-winning book Alice Guy Blache, Lost Visionary of the Cinema (Continuum 2002), which was translated into Spanish by Plots Ediciones and has been optioned by the PIC agency to be made into a documentary film. She is also the author of The Films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Hollywood (Continuum 2005) as well as numerous newspaper and scholarly articles on film and new media, www.AliceGuyBlache.com and www.FilmsofTimBurton.com. Full list of publications can be found at www.AlisonMcMahan.com. She is currently working on a historical novel.
Reviews
'McMahan has done a monumental job of excavation to locate her subject's place in the history of the cinema...A major feat of enlightened - and enlightening - scholarship.' Los Angeles Times
'An obsessively detailed history of a true motion-picture pioneer.' American Cinematographer
Book Information
ISBN 9780826451576
Author Alison McMahan
Format Paperback
Page Count 408
Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 620g