Alison McMahan

Alison McMahan is the author of the award-winning Alice Guy Blaché, Lost Visionary of the Cinema (Continuum, 2002) and The Films 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 and her next novella a steampunk western romance.

Contact: Alison@HomunculusProds.com

Latest Blog Entries

How to Edit Your Fiction

Thu, 2010-01-28 06:12 | by alison

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 »

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Steampunk World Building

Sat, 2010-01-23 19:50 | by alison

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

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Guest Blog on Steampunk and Sherlock Holmes, the movie

Thu, 2010-01-21 21:43 | by alison

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.

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

Thu, 2010-01-14 08:34 | by alison

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 »

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