From: w martin (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Oct 04 2008 - 08:36:32 PDT
Dulac's "Aesthetics, Obstacles, Integral *Cinégraphie*" (1926) and "The
Expressive Techniques of the Cinema" (1924) appear in Volume 1 of Richard
Abel's French Film Theory and History 1907–1939.
Cheers, Bill Martin
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Ed Halter <email suppressed> wrote:
> There are translations of a few Dulac articles in The Red Velvet Seat
> edited by Antonia Lant. I believe they are ones not available in Sitney's
> collection.
>
> Best
> Ed Halter
>
> On Oct 2, 2008, at 7:12 PM, James Cahill <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> Denah:
>>
>> Unless I'm mistaken "Das Wesen..." = "L'Essence du Cinéma—L'Idée Visuelle"
>> (1925) = "The Essence of Cinema: The Visual Idea" a translation of which
>> appears in AVANT GARDE FILM, ed. P. Adams Sitney, pp. 36-42.
>>
>> "Les esthetiques, les etraves..." = "The Aesthetics, The Obstacle:
>> Integral Cinegraphie" trans. Stuart Liebman, FRAMEWORK no. 19 (1982): 6-9.
>>
>> I don't know any of them personally and I'm not sure if they are on this
>> list, but Tami Williams at UW Milwaukee is doing fantastic historical
>> scholarship on Dulac, including working through drafts of publications (not
>> just the finalized versions), though most of it is being published in
>> French, Sian Reynolds translated Dulac's 3 pieces on newsreels for SCREENING
>> THE PAST (available online:
>> http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/classics/cl0301/srcl12a.htm),
>> and of course Sandy Flitterman-Lewis has written a good deal on Dulac.
>>
>> As a stop gap, some very beautifully translated fragments of Dulac's
>> writings--including extensive passages from "Du Sentiment à la Ligne" also
>> appear in Tom Gunning "Light, Motion, Cinema!: The Heritage of Loïe Fuller
>> and Germaine Dulac," Framework 46, no. 1 (Spring 2005).
>>
>> It's high time somebody translated the entirety of Dulac's Écrits, ed.
>> Hillairet Prosper (Paris Experimental) into English.
>>
>> Best of luck with your project and please share if you find out any good
>> news about forthcoming translations.
>>
>> James
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: denah johnston <email suppressed>
>> Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008 6:15 pm
>> Subject: Germaine Dulac writings - looking for English translations
>> To: email suppressed
>>
>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of any English translations (published/on the
>>> verge of
>>> publication/in progress) of the writings of Germaine Dulac?
>>>
>>> As writer/editor for the feminist journal *La Francaise*, 1909–13
>>>
>>> *Articles:*
>>>
>>> "Un Article? Mais que faut-il prouver?" in *Le Film* (Paris), 16
>>> October1919.
>>>
>>> "Aux amis du cinéma," address in *Cinémagazine* (Paris), 19
>>> December 1924.
>>>
>>> "L'Art des nuances spirituelles," in *Cinéa-Ciné pour tous*
>>> (Paris), January
>>> 1925.
>>>
>>> "Du sentiment à la ligne," in *Schémas*, no. 1, 1927.
>>>
>>> "Les Esthètiques, les entraves, la cinégraphie intégrale," in
>>> *L'Art* *
>>> cinématographique*, Paris, 1927.
>>>
>>> "Sur le cinéma visuel," in *Le Rouge et le noir* (Paris), July 1928.
>>>
>>> "Jouer avec les bruits," in *Cinéa-Ciné pour tous* (Paris), 15
>>> August 1929.
>>>
>>> "Das Wesen des Films: Die visuelle idee," and "Das Kino der
>>> Avantgarde," in
>>> *Frauen und Film* (Berlin), October 1984.
>>> . . .or any other articles? Any leads for books, links, contact
>>> emailsgladly accepted on or off list.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> --
>>> :denah
>>>
>>>
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