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Educated in Paris at the Lycée Lamartine and the Lycée Sophie-Germain. Licence ès-lettres in English Language and Literature (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III) and PhD in Film Studies (University of East Anglia, UK).

Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 1998, for services to French culture

Previously Professor of Film Studies at the University of Warwick, UK

Visiting Professorships: University of Bordeaux 3 (2010); Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (2004); Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III (1997

• French cinema, especially popular genres (thriller, film noir, heritage, comedy) and stars
• European cinema
• film history
• national identity
• trans-national cinema
• women's cinema

The French New Wave: Critical Landmarks (co-edited with Peter Graham), London: BFI, 2009.

Journeys of Desire, European Actors in Hollywood   (co-edited, with Alastair Phillips), London: BFI, 2006 

La Haine, London: I.B. Tauris, 2005 

Jean-Pierre Melville, 'An American in Paris', London: BFI, 2003

Film/Literature/Heritage, A Sight and Sound Reader   (ed.), London: BFI, 2001 

Stars and Stardom in French Cinema, London and New York: Continuum, 2000 and 2005

Pépé le Moko, BFI Film Classics, London: BFI, 1998 

The Companion to French Cinema, London: Cassell/BFI, 1996 

The Encyclopedia of European Cinema (ed.), London: Cassell/BFI, 1995 

Anatomie d'un mythe: Jean Gabin (with Claude Gauteur), Paris: Nathan, 1993 and 2006

20 ans de théories féministes sur le cinéma, Grande-Bretagne et Etats-Unis (co-edited with Bérénice Reynaud), CinémAction- Corlet, 1993 

Popular European Cinema (co-edited with Richard Dyer), London and New York: Routledge, 1992 

French Film, Texts and Contexts (co-edited with Susan Hayward), London and New York: Routledge, 1990 

 

Research

Ginette Vincendeau is currently completing a book on the cinematic representation of the South of France, writing a book on Brigitte Bardot and co-editing a book on Jean Renoir. 

Research Supervision

PhD topics supervised have included: filmmakers (Chantal Akerman, Chris Marker, Jules Dassin); stardom in different national contexts; aspects of national and transnational cinemas (French primarily, but also Belgian, Turkish, Argentine, Mexican, Greek), the relationship between French cinema, British cinema and Hollywood, film criticism in France.

Teaching

Ginette has taught courses on Film history; French cinema; European cinema; Film stardom; Crime cinema and film noir; Women's cinema; Feminist film theory; Authorship, especially in European cinema.

 

Research Supervision

PhD topics supervised have included: filmmakers (Chantal Akerman, Chris Marker, Jules Dassin); stardom in different national contexts; aspects of national and transnational cinemas (French primarily, but also Belgian, Turkish, Argentine, Mexican, Greek), the relationship between French cinema, British cinema and Hollywood, film criticism in France.

Current Students 

Elisabetta Babini

Mary Harrod

Olga Kourelou

Mariana Liz

Alisa Timoshkina

Maria-Anna Volioti

Julie Wright 

Series editor of the Cine-Files, French Film Guides series at I.B. Tauris

Regular film reviews for Sight and Sound, BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and the BBC World Service.

Commentaries and introductions for DVDs of Le Mépris, Le Grand jeu, L’Armée des ombres, Le Cercle rouge, Le Samouraï, Léon Morin prêtre, Le Doulos, L'Année dernière à Marienbad, Le Corbeau