The male gaze subverted: Germaine Dulac's La Belle Dame sans merci.
From: West Virginia University Philological Papers
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Date: 9/22/2001
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Author: Tregouet, Annie D.
In 1920, at the height of the film Avant-Garde movement, its only female member Germaine Dulac released her tenth film La Belle Dame sans merci, which she wrote in collaboration (1) with her friend Irene Hillel-Erlanger, a surrealist poet also known as Claude Lorey. (2) In Hillel-Erlanger's words La Belle Dame sans merci is "une histoire comme il y en a dans la vie de chacun de nous,... riche de ces chocs et mouvements intimes qui bouleversent les coeurs et les ames" (134). This ...
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