Reading
Secondary Reading
Week 1 – G茅rard Depardieu
Ginette Vincendeau, 鈥楾he French Star System鈥� and 鈥楪茅rard Depardieu: The axiom of contemporary French cinema鈥�, in Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (London/New York: Continuum, 2000), pp. 1-41, 215-40.
Guy Austin, 鈥楾hreat or reassurance? G茅rard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere鈥�, in Stars in Modern French Film (London: Arnold, 2003), pp. 78-90.
Week 2 – Jean Gabin I
Ginette Vincendeau, 鈥楯ean Gabin: From working-class hero to godfather鈥�, in Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (London/New York: Continuum, 2000), pp. 59-81.
Edward Baron Turk, 鈥楶oetic Realism鈥�, in Child of Paradise: Marcel Carn茅 and the Golden Age of French Cinema (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989), pp. 96-128.
Robin Bates, 鈥楢udiences on the Verge of a Fascist Breakdown: Male Anxieties and Late 1930s French Film鈥�, Cinema Journal, 36, 3 (1997), pp. 25-55.
Week 3 – Jean Gabin II
Ginette Vincendeau, 鈥楯ean Gabin: From working-class hero to godfather鈥�, in Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (London/New York: Continuum, 2000), pp. 59-81.
Claude Gauteur and Ginette Vincendeau, Jean Gabin: Anatomie d鈥檜n mythe (Paris: Nathan, 1993).
Week 4 – Catherine Deneuve I
Ginette Vincendeau, 鈥楥atherine Deneuve: From ice maiden to living divinity鈥�, in Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (London/New York: Continuum, 2000), pp. 196-214.
Michael Wood, Belle de Jour (London: BFI, 2000).
Peter William Evans, 鈥楤u帽uel Blonde鈥�, in Lisa Downing and Sue Harris (eds.), From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom of Catherine Deneuve (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007), pp. 29-44.
Guy Austin, 鈥楻ed woman/white woman: Jeanne Moreau and Catherine Deneuve鈥�, in Stars in Modern French Film (London: Arnold, 2003), pp. 34-46.
Jimmy Hay, 'Inside/Outside: Space and Sexual Behavior in Belle de jour and La Pianiste', in Rob Stone and Juli谩n Daniel Guti茅rrez-Abilla (eds), A Companion to Luis Bu帽uel (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), pp. 554-71.
Peter William Evans, 鈥楤elle de Jour and Female Perversion鈥�, in The Films of Luis Bu帽uel: Subjectivity and Desire (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), pp. 151-72.
Andrea Sabbadini, 鈥極f Boxes, Peepholes and Other Perverse Objects: A Psychoanalytic Look at Luis Bu帽uel鈥檚 Belle de Jour鈥�, in Peter William Evans and Isabel Santaolalla (eds.), Luis Bu帽uel: New Readings (London: BFI, 2004), pp. 117-27.
Week 5 – Catherine Deneuve II
Sue Harris, 鈥樷�淢adame La France鈥�: Deneuve as heritage icon鈥�, in Lisa Downing and Sue Harris (eds.), From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom of Catherine Deneuve (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007), pp. 94-109.
Christina Johnston, 鈥楧eneuve in the 1990s鈥�, in Lisa Downing and Sue Harris (eds.), From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom of Catherine Deneuve (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007), pp. 129-43.
Brigitte Rollet, 鈥業dentity and Alterity in Indochine (Wargnier, 1992)鈥�, in Phil Powrie (ed.) French Cinema in the 1990s: Continuity and Difference (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 37-46.
Brigitte E. Humbert, 'Filming France's Colonial Past: Women "Wearing the Pants" in Outremer and Indochine', Studies in French Cinema, 12: 1 (2012), pp. 59-74.
Sylvie Blum, 鈥楾he Lover, Indochine: Returning to Indochina鈥�, Jump Cut, 41 (1997), pp. 59-66.
Catherine Deneuve, 鈥業ndochine鈥�, in 脌 l鈥檕mbre de moi-m锚me (Paris: Stock, 2004), pp. 53-117.
Gwena毛lle Le Gras, Le Mythe Deneuve: Une 鈥榮tar鈥� fran莽aise entre classicisme et modernit茅 (Paris: Nouveau Monde, 2010).
Week 6 – Reading week
Week 7 – Isabelle Huppert I
Marja Warehime, 鈥楩amily portraits II: Loulou, 脌 nos amours and Police鈥�, in Maurice Pialat (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006), 95-130.
Isabelle Huppert, conversation with Philippe Garrel and Maurice Pialat, Cahiers du cin茅ma, 477 (March 1994), special issue Isabelle Huppert: Autoportrait(s), pp. 22-31.
Week 8 – Isabelle Huppert II
Bridget Birchall, 鈥楩rom nude to metteuse-en-sc猫ne: Isabelle Huppert, image and desire in La Dentelli猫re (Goretta, 1977) and La Pianiste (Haneke, 2001)鈥�, Studies in French Cinema, 5, 1 (2005), pp. 5-15.
Ginette Vincendeau, 鈥業sabelle Huppert: The Big Chill鈥�, Sight & Sound, 16, 12 (December 2006), pp. 36-9.
Tony McKibbin, 鈥楾he chaos of the organs: Isabelle Huppert鈥檚 reverse Pygmalionism鈥�, Studies in French Cinema, 5, 1 (2005), 17-26.
Charles Warren, 鈥楾he Unknown Piano Teacher鈥� and Jean Ma, 鈥楧iscordant Desires, Violent Refrains: The Piano Teacher鈥�, in Roy Grundmann (ed.), A Companion to Michael Haneke (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
Landon Palmer, 鈥楩rom Culture to Torture: Funny Games and The Piano Teacher鈥�; Felix W. Tweraser, 鈥業mages of Confinement and Transcendence: Michael Haneke鈥檚 Reception of Romanticism in The Piano Teacher鈥�; Iuliana Corina Vaida, 鈥楾wo Meanings of Masochism in the Language of the Art Critic鈥�, all in Ben McCann and David Sorfa (eds), The Cinema of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012).
Fatima Naqvi and Christophe Kon茅, 鈥楾he Key to Voyeurism: Haneke鈥檚 Adaptation of Jelinek鈥檚 The Piano Teacher鈥�, in Brian Price and John David Rhodes (eds), On Michael Haneke (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010), pp. 127-52.
Catherine Wheatley, 鈥楿nseen/Obscene: The (Non) Framing of the Sexual Act in Michael Haneke鈥檚 La Pianiste鈥�, in Lucy Bolton, Gerri Kimber, Ann Lewis and Michael Seabrook (eds.), Framed! Essays in French Studies (Oxford/Bern: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 127-44.
Weeks 9 and 10 – Vincent Cassel
Lisa Downing, 鈥楩rench Cinema鈥檚 New 鈥楽exual Revolution鈥�: Postmodern Porn and Troubled Genre鈥� in French Cultural Studies, 3, 15 (2004), pp.265-80.
Jerome Schaefer, 鈥�滨谤谤茅惫别谤蝉颈产濒别 and the New French Extremity鈥�, Ch.5 in An Edgy Realism : Film Theoretical Encounters with Dogma 95, New French Extremity, and the Shaky-Cam Horror Film (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), pp.87-111.
Alexandra West, 鈥楾ime Destroys All Things: Gaspar No茅鈥檚 Carne (1991), I Stand Alone (1998) and 滨谤谤茅惫别谤蝉颈产濒别 (2002)鈥� Ch.3 in Films of the New French Extremity : Visceral Horror and National Identity (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and company, 2016), pp.56-66.
Will Higbee, 'The return of the political, or designer visions of exclusion? The case for Mathieu Kassovitz's "fracture sociale" trilogy', Studies in French Cinema, 5, 2 (2005), pp.123-135.
Tim Palmer, 'Modes of Masculinity in Contemporary French Cinema', Ch.19 in Alistair Fox, Michel Marie, Rapha毛lle Moine and Hilary Radner (eds.), A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), pp.419-438.
Further Reading
Austin, Guy, Stars in Modern French Film (London: Arnold, 2003).
Butler, Jeremy G. (ed.), Star Texts: Image and Performance in Film and Television (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991).
Deneuve, Catherine, A l鈥檕mbre de moi-m锚me (Paris: Stock, 2004).
Dyer, Richard, Stars (London: BFI, 1979).
Fischer, Lucy and Landy, Marcia (eds.), Stars: The Film Reader (London: Routledge, 2004).
Gauteur, Claude and Vincendeau, Ginette, Jean Gabin: Anatomie d鈥檜n mythe(Paris: Nathan, 1993).
Gledhill, Christine (ed.), Stardom: Industry of Desire (London: Routledge, 1991).
Harvey, James, Watching Them Be: Star Presence on the Screen from Garbo to Balthazar (London: Faber & Faber, 2014).
Hollinger, Karen, The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star (London: Routledge, 2006).
Klevan, Andrew, Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation (London: Wallflower, 2005).
LaSalle, Mick, The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012).
Lovell, Alan and Kr盲mer, Peter (eds.), Screen Acting (London: Routledge, 1999).
Moseley, Rachel (ed.), Fashioning Film Stars: Dress, Culture, Identity (London: BFI, 2005).
Naremore, James, Acting in the Cinema (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).
Potter, Sally, Naked Cinema: Working with Actors (London: Faber & Faber, 2014).
Robertson Wojcik, Pamela, Movie Acting: The Film Reader (London: Routledge, 2004).
Stacey, Jackie, Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship (London: Routledge, 1994).
Vincendeau, Ginette, Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (London: Continuum, 2000).
Willis, Andy (ed.), Film Stars: Hollywood and Beyond (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004).
