Ginette Vincendeau

Ginette Vincendeau (born 1948) is a French-born British-based academic who is a Professor of Film Studies at King's College London.[1]

Ginette Vincendeau
Born1948
NationalityFrench national, UK resident
OccupationAcademic, writer, film critic
Years active1977-present

Vincendeau was educated at the Lycée Lamartine and Lycée Sophie-Germain, Paris, and the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, gaining a degree in English language and literature. She taught French in schools in the UK and at the University of East Anglia, before completing a doctorate in Film Studies, supervised by Thomas Elsaesser. While in Norwich, she initiated and co-organised the Norwich Women’s Film Weekend. Before assuming her post at King's, Vincendeau was Professor of Film Studies at Warwick University.

Vincendeau is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound magazine and the feminist site le genre et l’écran. She contributes essays to many DVDs of French films, in particular for Arrow Films, BFI and Criterion. She has written widely about European, and especially French cinema, specialising in popular genres and stars. In 1998, she was awarded the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture, for services to French culture. She is currently co-Chief General Editor of the journal French Screen Studies.

Publications

Monographs
  • Anatomie d’un mythe: Jean Gabin (with Claude Gauteur), Paris: Nathan, 1993, 225 pp. Re-edited in 2006.
  • The Companion to French Cinema, London: Cassell/BFI, 1996, 202 pp.
  • Pépé le Moko, BFI Film Classics, London: BFI, 1998, 78 pp.
  • Stars and Stardom in French Cinema, London and New York: Continuum, 2000, 275 pp. Reprinted in 2005.
  • Jean-Pierre Melville, 'An American in Paris', London: BFI, 2003, 278 pp.
  • La Haine, London: I.B. Tauris, 2005, 118 pp.
  • Les stars et le star-système en France, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2008 (updated and enlarged French edition of Stars and Stardom in French Cinema).
  • Brigitte Bardot, London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2013.
  • Brigitte Bardot, The Life, The Films, The Legend, London: Carlton, 2014 (published in French as Brigitte Bardot, Paris: Gründ, 2014).

Edited and co-edited books
  • City Cinemas, Norwich: Cinema City, 1978.
  • Les Cinéastes allemands en France, les années 30 (with Thomas Elsaesser), Paris: Institut Goethe, 1982, 29 pp.
  • La Vie est à nous! French Cinema of the Popular Front 1935-38 (with Keith Reader), London: BFI, 1986, 109 pp.
  • French Film, Texts and Contexts (with Susan Hayward), London and New York: Routledge, 1990, 309 pp. Selected for “Outstanding Academic List”, Choice, May 1991.
  • Popular European Cinema (with Richard Dyer), London and New York: Routledge, 1992, 270 pp.
  • 20 ans de théories féministes sur le cinéma, Grande-Bretagne et Etats-Unis (with Bérénice Reynaud), CinémAction 67, CinémAction- Corlet, 1993, 200 pp.
  • The Encyclopedia of European Cinema, London: Cassell/BFI, 1995, 475 pp.
  • French Film, Texts and Contexts (with Susan Hayward); Second Edition (revised and expanded), London and New York: Routledge, 2000, 348 pp.
  • Film/Literature/Heritage, A "Sight and Sound" Reader, London: BFI, 2001, 300 pp.
  • Journeys of Desire, European Actors in Hollywood (co-edited with Alastair Phillips), London: BFI, 2006.
  • The French New Wave, Critical Landmarks (co-edited with Peter Graham), London: BFI, 2009.
  • A Companion to Jean Renoir (co-edited with Alastair Phillips), Wiley-Blackwell: 2013.
  • Paris in the Cinema: Beyond the Flâneur (co-edited with Alastair Phillips), London: BFI/Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017.

Selected chapters in books
  • "'Noir is also a French word', The French antecedents of Film Noir", in Ian Cameron (ed.), The Movie Book of Film Noir, Studio Vista, 1992, pp. 49-58.
  • "Fathers and daughters in French cinema", in Pam Cook and Philip Dodd (eds.), Women and Film: A "Sight and Sound" Reader, London: Scarlet Press, 1993, pp. 156-163. [reprint of 'Family Plots', Sight and Sound, March 1992]
  • "From Proletarian Hero to Godfather: Jean Gabin and 'Paradigmatic' French masculinity", in Pat Kirkham & Janet Thumin (eds.), Me Jane, Masculinity, Movies and Women, London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1995, pp. 249-262.
  • "Nuit et jour, A Parisian Fairytale", in Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (ed.), Chantal Akerman, Flick Books, 1999. Reprinted 2003.
  • "Hollywood Babel: The Coming of Sound and the Multiple-Language Version" in Andrew Higson and Richard Maltby (eds.), 'Film Europe' and 'Film America', Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange 1920-1939, Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1999. [reprint of earlier article published in Screen].
  • "The Art of Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Classical French Cinema", in Michael Temple and Mike Witt (eds.), The French Cinema Book, London: BFI, 2004, pp. 137-152.
  • "French film noir", in Andrew Spicer (ed.), European Film Noir, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007, pp. 23-54.
  • "From La Cage aux Rossignols to Les Choristes: Changes and continuites in French Popular Cinema" in Darren Waldron and Isabelle Vanderschelden (eds.), France at the Flicks: Trends in Contemporary French Cinema, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
  • "Music, Crime and the Gaze: La Bête humaine (1938)", in Tom Brown and James Walters (eds.), Film Moments: Criticism, History, Theory, London: BFI, 2010.
  • "'The Frenchness of French Cinema', The Language of National Identity, from the Regional to the Trans-National", in Will Higbee and Sarah Leahy (eds.), Studies in French Cinema, UK Perspectives, 1985-2010, Bristol and Chicago: Intellect, 2011.
  • "Fernandel: de l’innocent du village à Monsieur tout le monde", in Gwénaëlle Le Gras et Delphine Chedaleux (eds.), Genres et acteurs du cinema français 1930-1960, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012, 133-155.
  • "Between Renoir and Hitchcock: Stardom and the Paradox of Truffaut’s Women", in Dudley Andrew and Anne Gillain (eds.), A Companion to François Truffaut, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
  • "Coco Chanel: Female Biopics in the Age of Global Branding", in Tom Brown and Belen Vidal (eds.), The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture, London: Taylor & Francis/Routlege, 2013-4.
  • "From the Margins to the Centre, The rise of Ethnic Stars in French Cinema", in Raphaëlle Moine and Hilary Radner (eds.), A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
  • "La Cage dorée/The Gilded Cage – a Franco-Portuguese comedy of integration", in Mariana Liz (ed.), Portugal’s Global Cinema: Industry, History and Culture, London: I.B. Tauris, 2017.
  • "Stars across borders: the vexed question of stars' exportability", in Rob Stone, Paul Cooke, Stephanie Dennison and Alex Marlow-Mann (eds.), The Routledge Companion to World Cinema, London and New York: Routledge, 2018.
  • "Maigret on screen: stardom and literary adaptation", in Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer, French Literature on Screen, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019.

Selected journal articles

References
  1. "Professor Ginette Vincendeau". King's College London. Retrieved 19 June 2020.

Department of Film Studies, King's College London

French Screen Studies

le genre et l'écran

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