Germaine Dulac (17 November 1882, Amiens, France – 20 July 1942, Paris) was a French film director and early film theorist. Famously, she directed The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928), based on a scenario by Antonin Artaud. This film has been credited as the first surrealist film, released shortly before Un Chien Andalou (1929) by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. However, other scholars, including Ephraim Katz, consider her an Impressionist filmmaker.

Her other films include La Souriante Madame Beudet (1922).

Contents 1 Bibliography 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Bibliography

• Wendy Dozoretz, Germaine Dulac : Filmmaker, Polemicist, Theoretician, (New York University Dissertation, 1982), 362 pp.

• Charles Ford, Germaine Dulac : 1882 - 1942, Paris : Avant-Scène du Cinéma, 1968, 48 p. (Serie: Anthologie du cinéma ; 31)

• Lee Jamieson, 'The Lost Prophet of Cinema: The Film Theory of Antonin Artaud' in Senses of Cinema, Issue 44, July 2007^[1]

[edit] See also

• Women's Cinema
• Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920's and 1930's (DVD collection which includes Seashell and the Clergyman)
• Avant-garde
• Experimental film
• Cinema pur

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Rétrospective Germaine Dulac
• Germaine Dulac at the Internet Movie Database
• The Seashell and the Clergyman at the Internet Movie Database
• The Seashell and the Clergyman at UbuWeb
• Germaine Dulac at Find a Grave