About
Alison McMahan is a writer and an award-winning non-fiction filmmaker. Her best-known film is Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs (2010), about landmine survivors in Cambodia, narrated by Sam Waterston.
Her non-fiction books include Alice Guy Blaché, Lost Visionary of the Cinema (Bloomsbury 2002), which was translated into Spanish and Japanese and film rights sold for a documentary, Be Natural (2018).
Her short mysteries have been anthologized by Level Best Books, Wildside Press, Down-and-Out Books, and in the Scream and Scream Again middle-grade horror anthology edited by R.L. Stine for HarperCollins. She is a two-time Derringer finalist and chosen as one of the "Other Distinguished Mystery Stories" authors in Best American Mystery Stories of 2018. https://alisonmcmahan.com/
Featured Work
Alice Guy Blaché, Lost Visionary of the Cinema
This is the story of the first woman filmmaker and a critical analysis of her work, based on McMahan's Ph.D. thesis, which won the Union Circle of Scholars Award in 1997 and the Women in Film Award at the St. Louis International Film Festival in 2004. It's been translated into Spanish and Japanese. A documentary, "Be Natural" was based on it in 2018.
