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Most Tim Burton films are huge box-office successes, and several are already classics. The directors mysterious and eccentric public persona attracts a lot of attention, while the films themselves have been somewhat overlooked. Here, Alison McMahan redresses this imbalance through a close analysis of Burtons key films (Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow) and their industrial context. She argues that Burton has bee...

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Alice Guy BlachT (1873-1968), the world's first woman filmmaker, was one of the key figures in the development of narrative film. From 1896 to 1920 she directed 400 films (including over 100 synchronized sound films), produced hundreds more, and was the first--and so far the only--woman to own and run her own studio plant (The Solax Studio in Fort Lee, NJ, 1910-1914). However, her role in film history was completely forgotten until her own mem...