Alison McMahan
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Sam Waterston has recorded the narration for Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs and we are now in the final phases of post-production.

Alice Guy Blache by Alison McMahan, bookcover
Cover of Alice Guy Blaché

The Films of Tim Burton, bookcover
Cover of The Films of Tim Burton

ACADEMIC PAPERS -- Film History

"Chez le Photographe c'est chez moi: Relationship of Actor and Filmed Subject to Camera in Early Film and Virtual Reality Spaces" in THE CINEMA OF ATTRACTION(S), 1986-2006, edited by Wanda Stauven, Amsterdam University Press, 2006.

"Alice Guy Blaché" in The Encyclopedia of Early Cinema, edited by Richard Abel, Routledge, 2005.

"The Animation Paradigm" Le Cinématographe, nouvelle technologie du Xxe siècle/The Cinema, A New Technology for the 20th Century, edited by André Gaudreault, Catherine Russell and Pierre Véronneau, France: Editions Payot Lausanne, 2004, p. 373-380.

Chapter in and co-editor of Historiography of Film Sound, based on the Archimedia 2000 Conference in Brussels (2004).

"Film Technology Before 1914", chapter on early cinema history in Europe for the Encyclopedia of European Cinema, Elizabeth Ezra, ed., Oxford University Press, November 2003.

"The Drive To Mechanisation And Digitisation" Chapter in The French Cinema Book, BFI, Richard Abel, ed., 2003.

"Eastern Westerns: Early French Constructions of American Identity" QRFV, Vol. 18 (3), 2001, pp. 295-303.

"The Quest for Motion: Moving Pictures and Flight" in Visual Delights: Essays on the Popular and Projected Image in the 19th Century, edited by Simon Popple and Vanessa Toulmin, Trowbridge, UK: Flicks Books, 2000, pp. 181-193.

"Biography of Alice Guy" in Contemporary Issues, International Film Festival of Loulé: The Feminine Look: Women in Literature and Cinema, Film Festival Catalogue, 17-23 June 2000, Loulé: Camara Municipal de Loulé, June 2000, pp. 31-38.

"A La Recherche d'Objets Filmiques Non Identifiés: Autour de l'oeuvre d'Alice Guy-Blaché" Archives, 81: Août 1999" (entire double issue), 1999.

"Sound Rewrites Silents", Kintop, Winter 1999, published in German as Stummfilmgeschichte im Licht der Tonbilder, Kintop 8, 1999, p. 141-158.

"The Effect of Multiform Narrative on Subjectivity" Screen, 40:2, Summer 1999, p. 146-157.

"Alice I attraktionernas Land" (Alice in the Land of Attractions) Aura, Vol. III, No. 3-4/1997 The University of Stockholm.

Photo Essay from the works of Alice Guy in oltre l'autore I/beyond the author I, October 1996 issue of film journal Fotogenia.

"La Relation Gaumont-Lumière" in L'aventure du Cinématographe, Actes du Congrès mondial Lumière, Lyon: ALÉAS, 1999, pp. 125-131.

"Madame a des Envies: Runaway Desire in the Gaumont Films of Alice Guy" Le Cinema au tournant du siecle/The Cinema at the Turn of the Century, The proceedings of the Third International DOMITOR Conference (New York 1994), edited by Claire Dupre la Tour, Andre Gaudreault and Roberta Pearson.