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Those dashing McDonagh sisters : Australia's first female filmmaking team / Mandy Sayer.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.2 .S295 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sayer, Mandy, 1963- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McDonagh, Paulette, 1901-1978.
- McDonagh, Paulette.
- McDonagh, Phyllis, 1900-1978.
- McDonagh, Phyllis.
- McDonagh, Isabel, 1899-1982.
- McDonagh, Isabel.
- Women motion picture producers and directors--Australia--Biography.
- Women motion picture producers and directors.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Australia--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Motion picture actors and actresses--Australia--Biography.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- Motion picture industry--Australia--History--20th century.
- Motion picture industry.
- Motion pictures.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- History.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [S.l.] : NEWSOUTH PUBLISHING, 2022.
- Sydney, NSW, Australia : NewSouth Publishing, 2022.
- Summary:
- The trailblazing McDonagh sisters were the first women in Australia to form their own film production company. Between 1926 and 1933, this remarkable trio produced four feature films and a number of documentaries. The youngest, Paulette, was one of only five women film directors in the world. Phyllis produced, art directed and conducted publicity. And the eldest, Isabel, under her stage name Marie Lorraine, acted in all the female leads. Together, the sisters transformed Australian cinema's preoccupations with the outback and the bush -- and what they mocked as 'haystack movies' -- into a thrilling, urban modernity. In Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters, Mandy Sayer reveals the sisters' remarkable story, from daughters of a respected Sydney surgeon with a love of theatre and the arts, to their first feature film, Those Who Love (1926), an instant hit, to their controversial final film, Two Minutes Silence (1933). Today, their most famous feature, The Cheaters, is frequently screened at international film festivals around the world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-299).
- Includes filmography (pages 293-297).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the The London Hilfers Family Endowment for the Study of Women in Cinema and Media Arts.
- ISBN:
- 9781742237435
- 1742237436
- OCLC:
- 1343197245
- Publisher Number:
- 99994229470
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