{"id":445,"date":"2015-12-07T04:32:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T04:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smilingmadamebeudet.sac.lsa.umich.edu\/?page_id=445"},"modified":"2015-12-07T04:32:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T04:32:09","slug":"beudet-dulacs-screen-persona","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/smilingmadamebeudet\/theme-3\/beudet-dulacs-screen-persona\/","title":{"rendered":"Beudet: Dulac&#8217;s Screen Persona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Gabriel Wolfe<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Germaine Dulac experienced the typical mundane life of French housewives: sitting around, reading, looking presentable, and overall being an accessory or trophy for the husband.\u00a0When Dulac could no longer deal with her position, she freed herself by entering the film industry. She states<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0that her reasoning for joining cinema was to break \u201cthe monotony of a purely social life.\u201d\u00a0This quote becomes the entire theme and setting of <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Smiling Madame Beudet<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-451 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/smilingmadamebeudet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-06-at-10.57.54-PM-300x185.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-12-06 at 10.57.54 PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/smilingmadamebeudet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-06-at-10.57.54-PM-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/smilingmadamebeudet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-06-at-10.57.54-PM.png 308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the beginning of the film, Dulac establishes Madame Beudet as completely bored with her current situation. The only activity she does enjoy is playing the piano, where she can be free to express herself through the music, and temporarily escape her usual magazine reading and aimless wandering about the house. M<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ail-time is the only other break that upper class women receive in the \u201cinexorable monotony of time,\u201d as Madame Beudet eagerly snatches the letters as if she will receive something that will save her from her unsatisfactory life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-349 \" src=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/smilingmadamebeudet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-03-at-11.39.27-AM-300x237.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"184\" \/><\/i>Dulac also mentions\u00a0her dissatisfaction with French cinema at the time. How the French focus on staging beauty in front of the screen while she firmly believes that cinema should focus on the brutal and vulgar of everyday life. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beudet <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">this vulgarity appears through Monsieur Beudet, whose grotesque face and laugh portray him more as a crazed lunatic who entraps Beudet and locks the piano away from her, rather than a loving husband of the upper class.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keyzer, Princess. &#8220;Society Woman a Movie Director: Mme. Dulac, Famous French Cinema Producer, Acknowledges Her Debt to Americans, Whose Realistic Methods, She Says, Are Changing Dramatic Arts.&#8221; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Atlanta Constitution<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 6 June 1920: 14K. Print.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Wolfe Germaine Dulac experienced the typical mundane life of French housewives: sitting around, reading, looking presentable, and overall being an accessory or trophy for the husband.\u00a0When Dulac could no longer deal with her position, she freed herself by entering the film industry. She states\u00a0that her reasoning for joining cinema was to break \u201cthe monotony &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/smilingmadamebeudet\/theme-3\/beudet-dulacs-screen-persona\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beudet: Dulac&#8217;s Screen Persona&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-445","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/smilingmadamebeudet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/smilingmadamebeudet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/smilingmadamebeudet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/smilingmadamebeudet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/smilingmadamebeudet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/smilingmadamebeudet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/445\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/smilingmadamebeudet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/smilingmadamebeudet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}