Introduction - stardom in French cinema; Max Linder; Jean Gabin; Brigitte Bardot; Louis de Funes; Jeanne Moreau and the stars of the new wave; Catherine Deneuve; Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo; Gerard Depardieu; Juliette Binoche.
Ginette Vincendeau is Professor of Film Studies at King's College London . 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 Pépé le Moko (BFI, 1998).
"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
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