Janelle Dietrick: 3 books
Mademoiselle Alice
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Winner of the Literary TItan Book Award gold medal. A deeply evocative story inspired by real events: the love affair between two unforgettable people—Gustave Eiffel, the builder of the Eiffel Tower, and Alice Guy Blaché, a pioneer in the art of cinema. Mademoiselle Alice steps out of the shadows...
Illuminating Moments
The Films of Alice Guy Blaché
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
The stories Alice Guy Blaché put on film are the subject of this book. It contains 725 synopses including 360 translated from the original French. This book is not a filmography or a critical review of Alice's films, but a long drink of her stories. It was Alice's love of story that led her to start...
La Fée Aux Choux
Alice Guy's Garden of Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
There is something deeply captivating about La Fée aux Choux―the oversize cabbages tell you this is a fantasy while the fairy beckons you to observe the pleasant unreality of babies being born in a garden. This 1900 film frequently stands in as Alice Guy's 1896 debut, but since no one has found...