Stars and Stardom in French Cinema by Ginette Vincendeau

Stars and Stardom in French Cinema by Ginette Vincendeau

French cinema has produced a substantial galaxy of stars to achieve world fame in their national films. This is an analysis of the phenomenon of French stardom. It provides in-depth studies of the major popular stars of French cinema: Max Linder, Jean Gabin, Brigitte Bardot, Louis de Funes, Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Gerard Depardieu, and Juliette Binoche. It explores the stars' images and performance styles in the context of the French film industry, and in relation to French culture and society. It also examines the unusually close relationship between French film stars and national identity, in a country where Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve have modelled for Marianne (the effigy of the Republic) and where Jean Gabin has been seen as a role model by left-wing politicians.

"This is a book that will add exciting new dimensions to teaching of and research into French cinema" - Modern and Contemporary France
"...a welcome complement to existing auteur and historical studies of French film, and a welcome intervention in more general work on stardom...Eminently readable....and extremely useful - and, thanks to the stars themselves, sexy - addition to survey courses on French cinema." --Screen, Winter 2002

Ginette Vincendeau is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the editor of the BFI/Cassell Encyclopedia of European Cinema, and the author of The Companion to French Cinema (BFI/Cassell 1996) and Pepe le Moko (BFI, 1998).

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ISBN 13	9780826447319
ISBN 10	0826447317
Title	Stars and Stardom in French Cinema
Author	Ginette Vincendeau
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2000-11-01
Number of pages	288
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