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The Astonishing and Multiple Achievements of Alice Guy-Blaché
Sarah Gleeson-White reviews a new documentary about a female cinematic pioneer....
Sarah Gleeson-White is associate professor of American Literature at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Strange Bodies: Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers (2003) and William Faulkner at Twentieth Century-Fox: The Annotated Screenplays (2017) and editor, with Peter Lurie, of The New Faulkner Studies, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. She has written about American literature and film for PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South, and William Faulkner in Context. Her forthcoming book, Literature in Motion, considers the interactions of US literary and cinema cultures across the silent film era.