Alice Guy

First Lady of Film

José-Louis Bocquet, Catel Muller

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English

SelfMadeHero
30 October 2022

Individual film directors, film-makers; Graphic novels: true stories & non-fiction

"In 1895, the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph. Less than a year later, 23-year-old Alice Guy, the first female filmmaker in cinema history, made The Cabbage Fairy, a 60-second movie, for Léon Gaumont, going on to direct over 300 films before 1922. Her life is a shadow history of early cinema, the chronicle of an art form coming into its own. A free and independent woman, rubbing shoulders with luminaries such as Georges Méliès and the Lumières, she was the first to define the professions of screenwriter and producer. She directed the first feminist satire, then the first sword-and-sandal epic, before crossing the Atlantic in 1907 to become the first woman to found her own production company in New Jersey. Alice Guy died in 1969, excluded from the annals of film history. In 2011, Martin Scorsese honoured this cinematic visionary, ""forgotten by the industry she had helped create"", describing her as ""a filmmaker of rare sensitivity, with a remarkable poetic eye and an extraordinary feel for locations"". The same can be said of Catel & Bocquet's luminous account of her life."

By: José-Louis Bocquet
Illustrated by: Catel Muller
Imprint: SelfMadeHero
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781914224034
ISBN 10: 1914224035
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 30 October 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Catel Muller specializes in graphic novels portraying remarkable women. Her biography of the feminist writer and activist Benoîte Groult won the Artémisia Prize, and her eponymous biographies of such previously hidden figures as Kiki de Montparnasse and Josephine Baker have been reprinted and translated worldwide. Her award of the prestigious Prix Diagonale/Rossel in 2018 cemented her reputation as a major graphic novelist. José-Louis Bocquet has published eight crime novels, as well as monographs on the comics artist René Goscinny and the filmmaker H-G. Clouzot. A successful screenwriter, he has also collaborated on graphic novels by Serge Clerc, Steve Cuzor, Stanislas, and Philippe Berthet.

Reviews for Alice Guy: First Lady of Film

"""An under-recognized genius of silent film returns to life in this spirited graphic biography from French comics duo Catel Bocquet (Josephine Baker) . . . The ebullient art, subtly tinted in sepia tones, is packed with detail, including full-page spreads of patisseries, Parisian streets, and makeshift movie sets.""--Publishers Weekly, Publishers Weekly"