Ginette Vincendeau

Previously professor of film studies at the University of Warwick, I am professor emeritus of film studies in the faculty of arts and humanities. I was educated in Paris at the Lycée Lamartine and the Lycée Sophie-Germain. I have a licence ès-lettres in English language and literature (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III) and a PhD in film studies (University of East Anglia, UK). My teaching areas comprise the French New Wave, film history; French cinema; European cinema; film stardom; crime cinema and film noir; women's cinema; feminist film theory; authorship, especially in European cinema. I am the series editor of the Cine-Files, French Film Guides series at I.B. Tauris, and a regular film reviewer for Sight and Sound, BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and the BBC World Service.

My research interests include: French cinema, especially popular genres (thriller, film noir, heritage, comedy); stardom and celebrities in France; European and Hollywood film stars; national and trans-national cinema; women's cinema and gender in the cinema

I was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 1998, for services to French culture. My visiting professorships include the University of Bordeaux (2010); Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (2004); and Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III (1997)

Publications

Guest Editor's Introduction
Bell, S. (Guest editor) & Vincendeau, G. (Editor), 2026, In: French Screen Studies.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

Stars across borders: The vexed question of stars' exportability
Vincendeau, G., 27 Sept 2017, The Routledge Companion to World Cinema. Taylor and Francis Ltd, p. 359-368 10 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

So Far Yet So Close: the Banlieue in Contemporary French Cinema
Vincendeau, G., 2018, Paris in the Cinema: Beyond the Flâneur. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 87-99 12 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

From the Margins to the Centre: French Stardom and Ethnicity
Vincendeau, G., 20 Nov 2014, A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema. WILEY-BLACKWELL, p. 547-569 22 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

Introduction: the ‘blond issue’
Vincendeau, G., 2 Jan 2016, In: Celebrity Studies. 7, 1, p. 1-5 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

And Bardot … became a blonde: hair, stardom and modernity in post-war France
Vincendeau, G., 31 Mar 2016, In: Celebrity Studies. 7, 1, p. 98-112
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

La Haine and After: Arts, Politics, and the Banlieue
Vincendeau, G., 2007
Research output: Other contribution

Between Renoir and Hitchcock: The Paradox of Truffaut's Women
Vincendeau, G., 19 Feb 2013, A COMPANION TO FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT . Gillain, A. & Dudley, A. (eds.). Chichester: Blackwell, p. 375-387 13 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Fernandel: de l’innocent du village à “Monsieur tout le monde”
Vincendeau, G., 2012, Genres et acteurs du cinéma français 1930-1960. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, p. 133-157 25 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Fifty Years of the French New Wave: From Hysteria to Nostalgia
Vincendeau, G., 2009, The French New Wave: Critical Landmarks. Graham, P. & Vincendeau, G. (eds.). BFI Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-29 29 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Marcel Pagnol, Vichy and Classical French Cinema
Vincendeau, G., 1 Mar 2009, In: STUDIES IN FRENCH CINEMA. 9, 1, p. 5-23 19 p., N/A.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Brigitte Bardot
Vincendeau, G., Feb 2013, BFI Palgrave Macmillan. 176 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book

The French New Wave: Critical Landmarks
Graham, P. (Editor) & Vincendeau, G. (Editor), 2009, BFI Palgrave Macmillan. 288 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book