Stars and stardom in French cinema / Ginette Vincendeau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vincendeau, Ginette, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture actors and actresses--France.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Motion pictures--France--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

French cinema is second only to Hollywood in the number of its movie stars who have emerged to achieve international fame. France is, in fact, arguably the only country other than the United States to have an international "star system." Yet these glamorous and charismatic stars differ from their U.S. counterparts in that they maintain more freedom to control their own images and often straddle both mainstream and auteur cinema.Ginette Vincendeau, a leading authority on French cinema, analyzes the phenomenon of French film stardom and provides brilliant in-depth studies of the major popular stars of the French cinema: Max Linder, Jean Gabin, Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Louis de FunFs, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, GTrard Depardieu, and Juliette Binoche. This volume analyzes these stars' images and performance styles in the context of the French film industry, but also in relation to national culture and society. In the country where Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve have modeled for Marianne (the effigy of the Republic) and left-wing politicians have held up Jean Gabin as a role model, Vincendeau examines the unusual relationship between French film stars and national identity.Ginette Vincendeau is professor of film studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author and editor of a number of books on cinema

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Conventions; Chapter 1 The French Star System; Chapter 2 Max Linder: the world's first film star; Chapter 3 Jean Gabin: from working-class hero to godfather; Chapter 4 Brigitte Bardot: the old and the new: what Bardot meant to 1950's France; Chapter 5 Jeanne Moreau and the Actresses of the New Wave: New Wave, new stars; Chapter 6 Louis de Funès: le gendarme et les cinéphiles; Chapter 7 Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon: one smiles, the other doesn't; Chapter 8 Catherine Deneuve: from ice maiden to living divinity

Chapter 9 Gérard Depardieu: the axiom of contemporary French cinema Chapter 10 Juliette Binoche: the face of neo-romanticism; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-262) and index.

Includes filmographies.

ISBN:

9780826447309

9786612013072

9781472597724

1472597729

9781282013070

1282013076

9781441130266

1441130268

OCLC:

649900420