Stars and Stardom in French Cinema
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Stars and Stardom in French Cinema

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Stars and Stardom in French Cinema

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2000
Print ISBN
9780826447302
eBook ISBN
9781441130266
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Popular Culture
Index
Social Sciences
18
Stars
and
Stardom
in
French
Cinema
Plate
2
Martine
Carol:
the
Studio
Harcourt
look.
(ÂŁ)
Harcourt.
(Billard,
1997,
p. 
18) 
-
Cannes 
soon 
became
a
film
market
and 
a
launching
pad 
for
stars
and
starlets. 
Unlike
the
more
cinephile
Berlin
and
Venice,
and
low-key 
London, 
Cannes
has
always 
been
a
glitzy 
event
with 
high-profile 
guests, 
ceremonies
and
prizes,
fusing
Hollywood-style
glamour
with
French
cultural
policy.
As
Pierre
Billard
says,
'Cannes
is 
in
France.
The
festival
showcases
cinema
in 
a
country 
where
the
cinema
has
become
the
object
of
national 
policy
and
debate'
(ibid.,
p.
79).
Cannes's
formidable
press 
apparatus, 
comprising 
more 
than
3,000
accredited
journalists
in 
the
late
1990s,
including
350
photographers
and
1,300
television
and
radio 
journalists,
twice-daily
press
conferences,
a
specially
installed
photo-opportunity 
space 
where 
photographers
may
shoot
stars

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Preface
  4. Conventions
  5. Chapter 1 The French Star System
  6. Chapter 2 Max Linder: the world's first film star
  7. Chapter 3 Jean Gabin: from working-class hero to godfather
  8. Chapter 4 Brigitte Bardot: the old and the new: what Bardot meant to 1950s France
  9. Chapter 5 Jeanne Moreau and the Actresses of the New Wave: New Wave, new stars
  10. Chapter 6 Louis de FunÚs: le gendarme et les cinéphiles
  11. Chapter 7 Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon: one smiles, the other doesn't
  12. Chapter 8 Catherine Deneuve: from ice maiden to living divinity
  13. Chapter 9 GĂ©rard Depardieu: the axiom of contemporary French cinema
  14. Chapter 10 Juliette Binoche: the face of neo-romanticism
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index