Alison McMahan

Alison McMahan is the author of the award-winning Alice Guy Blaché, Lost Visionary of the Cinema (Continuum, 2002) and The Fims of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Hollywood (Continuum 2005). She writes screenplays, documentary scripts (Homunculus Productions) and fiction. Her next book will be a work of historical fiction.

Contact: Alison@HomunculusProds.com

Latest Blog Entries

How to Edit Your Fiction

When I was a child my entrepreneur father moved us around a lot. Mostly we ended up in places where everyone spoke Spanish, from Mexico to Spain.  Read more »

Steampunk World Building

Is The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus Steampunk? What about Book of Eli?  Read more »

Guest Blog on Steampunk and Sherlock Holmes, the movie

See my guest blog on Steampunk and the recent movie Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, on Alicia Rasley's excellent blog on everything a writer needs to know.

Alice Guy Blaché Film Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art, NY

The Whitney Museum of Art in New York is screening almost all of the films of the first woman filmmaker, Alice Guy Blaché. The show runs until the end of January. Six of the nearly ninety films to be screened have been newly preserved.  Read more »

Steampunk Media List

I've been working on a steampunk western romance tentatively entitled The Separation of the Senses. Although I've been a fan of steampunk since I first started reading Jules Verne in the 1960s, once I actually started writing my own work I wanted to immerse myself in steampunk worlds completely. The best way to do that, of course, is to watch movies. But figuring out which movies to watch was not so easy, as there is wide disagreement on what exactly constitutes Steampunk. For what is is worth, here is my list. Agreements, disagreements, additions and evidence to support arguments for subtractions are all welcome.  Read more »