Professor Ginette Vincendeau

Contact: ginette.vincendeau@kcl.ac.uk

Ginette Vincendeau’s research interests are in French cinema, especially popular genres (thriller, film noir, heritage, comedy) and stars, as well as European cinema. She is also interested in issues of film history, national identity, trans-national cinema and women's cinema. She is currently working on the cinematic representation of the South of France and envisages, in the longer term, to work on the representation of Paris in the cinema and on French film noir.

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: Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (2004); Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III (1997)

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

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 L’Armée des ombres, Le Cercle rouge, Le Samouraï, Léon Morin prêtre, Le Doulos, L'Année dernière à Marienbad, Le Corbeau

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.
 
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.