Best known for directing the Impressionist classic "The Smiling Madame Beudet" and the first Surrealist film "The Seashell and the Clergyman," Germaine Dulac, feminist and pioneer of 1920s French avant-garde cinema, made close to thirty fiction films as well as numerous documentaries and newsreels. Through her filmmaking, writing, and cine-club activism, Dulac s passionate defense of the cinema as a lyrical art and social practice had a major influence on twentieth century film history and theory.

In "Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations," Tami Williams makes unprecedented use of the...

Best known for directing the Impressionist classic "The Smiling Madame Beudet" and the first Surrealist film "The Seashell and the Clergyman," Germaine Dulac, feminist and pioneer of 1920s French avant-garde cinema, made close to thirty fiction films as well as numerous documentaries and newsreels. Through her filmmaking, writing, and cine-club activism, Dulac s passionate defense of the cinema as a lyrical art and social practice had a major influence on twentieth century film history and theory.

In "Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations," Tami Williams makes unprecedented use of the...