Brigitte Bardot
Publishing Details
Brigitte Bardot
By (Author) Ginette Vincendeau
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
BFI Publishing
27th February 2013
United Kingdom
Classifications
Adult Education
Non Fiction
Individual actors and performers
791.43028092
Physical Properties
184
Width 134mm, Height 188mm, Spine 16mm
300g
Description
Ginette Vincendeau analyses Bardot's rise to fame as a highly-acclaimed French international film star and fashion icon from her early days as a fashion model and ballet dancer to her period of 'high stardom' between 1956 and 1960.
Reviews
A serious and well-researched account of Brigitte Bardot as a movie star and cultural phenomenom. -- Sight & Sound
Author Bio
GINETTE VINCENDEAU is Professor in Film Studies at King's College London. Her publications include La Haine (2005), Jean-Pierre
Melville: An American in Paris (2003) and Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (2000). She co-edited The French New Wave: Critical Landmarks (2009) with Peter Graham and, with Alastair Phillips, A Companion to Jean Renoir (2013) and Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood (2006). She is the editor of the Cine-Files French Film Guides series and a regular contributor to Sight & Sound.
