| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The French star system -- Max Linder : the world's first film star -- Jean Gabin : from working-class hero to godfather -- Brigitte Bardot : the old and the new : what Bardot meant to 1950s France -- Jeanne Moreau and the actresses of the new wave : new wave, new stars -- Louis de Funès : le gendarme et les cinéphiles -- Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon : one smiles, the other doesn't -- Catherine Deneuve : from ice maiden to living divinity -- Gérard Depardieu : the axiom of contemporary French cinema -- Juliette Binoche : the face of neo-romanticism |
| Summary |
French cinema is second only to Hollywood in the number of its movie stars who have emerged to achieve international fame. France is, in fact, arguably the only country other than the United States to have an international "star system." Yet these glamorous and charismatic stars differ from their U.S. counterparts in that they maintain more freedom to control their own images and often straddle both mainstream and auteur cinema. Ginette Vincendeau, a leading authority on French cinema, analyzes the phenomenon of French film stardom and provides brilliant in-depth studies of the major |
| Bibliography |
Includes filmographies |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-262) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Linder, Max, (1883-1925) ram |
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Gabin, Jean, (1904-1976) ram |
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Bardot, Brigitte, (1934- ...) ram |
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Moreau, Jeanne, (1928- ...) ram |
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Funès, Louis de, (1914-1983) ram |
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Belmondo, Jean-Paul, (1933- ...) ram |
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Delon, Alain, (1935- ...) ram |
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Deneuve, Catherine, (1943- ...) ram |
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Depardieu, Gérard, (1948- ...) ram |
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Binoche, Juliette, (1964- ...) ram |
| Subject |
Motion picture actors and actresses -- France
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Motion pictures -- France -- History
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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Motion picture actors and actresses
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Motion pictures
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Filmstar
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Cinéma -- France -- Histoire et critique.
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Acteurs de cinéma -- France.
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Actrices de cinéma -- France.
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France
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Frankreich
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441130266 |
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1441130268 |
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1282013076 |
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9781282013070 |
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9781472597724 |
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1472597729 |
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