Secondary Reading

Week 1 – Gérard Depardieu

Ginette Vincendeau, ‘The French Star System’ and ‘Gérard Depardieu: The axiom of contemporary French cinema’, in Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (London/New York: Continuum, 2000), pp. 1-41, 215-40.

Guy Austin, ‘Threat or reassurance? Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere’, in Stars in Modern French Film (London: Arnold, 2003), pp. 78-90.

Week 2 – Jean Gabin I

Ginette Vincendeau, ‘Jean Gabin: From working-class hero to godfather’, in Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (London/New York: Continuum, 2000), pp. 59-81.

Edward Baron Turk, ‘Poetic Realism’, in Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989), pp. 96-128.

Robin Bates, ‘Audiences on the Verge of a Fascist Breakdown: Male Anxieties and Late 1930s French Film’, Cinema Journal, 36, 3 (1997), pp. 25-55.

Week 3 – Jean Gabin II

Ginette Vincendeau, ‘Jean Gabin: From working-class hero to godfather’, in Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (London/New York: Continuum, 2000), pp. 59-81.

Claude Gauteur and Ginette Vincendeau, Jean Gabin: Anatomie d’un mythe (Paris: Nathan, 1993).

Week 4 – Catherine Deneuve I

Ginette Vincendeau, ‘Catherine Deneuve: From ice maiden to living divinity’, 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, ‘Buñuel Blonde’, 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, ‘Red woman/white woman: Jeanne Moreau and Catherine Deneuve’, 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 Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Abilla (eds), A Companion to Luis Buñuel (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), pp. 554-71.

Peter William Evans, ‘Belle de Jour and Female Perversion’, in The Films of Luis Buñuel: Subjectivity and Desire (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), pp. 151-72.

Andrea Sabbadini, ‘Of Boxes, Peepholes and Other Perverse Objects: A Psychoanalytic Look at Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour’, in Peter William Evans and Isabel Santaolalla (eds.), Luis Buñuel: New Readings (London: BFI, 2004), pp. 117-27.

Week 5 – Catherine Deneuve II

Sue Harris, ‘“Madame La France”: Deneuve as heritage icon’, 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, ‘Deneuve in the 1990s’, 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, ‘Identity and Alterity in Indochine (Wargnier, 1992)’, 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, ‘The Lover, Indochine: Returning to Indochina’, Jump Cut, 41 (1997), pp. 59-66.

Catherine Deneuve, ‘Indochine’, in À l’ombre de moi-même (Paris: Stock, 2004), pp. 53-117.

Gwenaëlle Le Gras, Le Mythe Deneuve: Une ‘star’ française entre classicisme et modernité (Paris: Nouveau Monde, 2010).

Week 6 – Reading week

Week 7 – Isabelle Huppert I

Marja Warehime, ‘Family portraits II: Loulou, À nos amours and Police’, in Maurice Pialat (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006), 95-130.

Isabelle Huppert, conversation with Philippe Garrel and Maurice Pialat, Cahiers du cinéma, 477 (March 1994), special issue Isabelle Huppert: Autoportrait(s), pp. 22-31.

Week 8 – Isabelle Huppert II

Bridget Birchall, ‘From nude to metteuse-en-scène: Isabelle Huppert, image and desire in La Dentellière (Goretta, 1977) and La Pianiste (Haneke, 2001)’, Studies in French Cinema, 5, 1 (2005), pp. 5-15.

Ginette Vincendeau, ‘Isabelle Huppert: The Big Chill’, Sight & Sound, 16, 12 (December 2006), pp. 36-9.

Tony McKibbin, ‘The chaos of the organs: Isabelle Huppert’s reverse Pygmalionism’, Studies in French Cinema, 5, 1 (2005), 17-26.

Charles Warren, ‘The Unknown Piano Teacher’ and Jean Ma, ‘Discordant Desires, Violent Refrains: The Piano Teacher’, in Roy Grundmann (ed.), A Companion to Michael Haneke (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

Landon Palmer, ‘From Culture to Torture: Funny Games and The Piano Teacher’; Felix W. Tweraser, ‘Images of Confinement and Transcendence: Michael Haneke’s Reception of Romanticism in The Piano Teacher’; Iuliana Corina Vaida, ‘Two Meanings of Masochism in the Language of the Art Critic’, 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 Koné, ‘The Key to Voyeurism: Haneke’s Adaptation of Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher’, in Brian Price and John David Rhodes (eds), On Michael Haneke (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010), pp. 127-52.

Catherine Wheatley, ‘Unseen/Obscene: The (Non) Framing of the Sexual Act in Michael Haneke’s La Pianiste’, 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, ‘French Cinema’s New ‘Sexual Revolution’: Postmodern Porn and Troubled Genre’ in French Cultural Studies, 3, 15 (2004), pp.265-80.

Jerome Schaefer, ‘Irréversible and the New French Extremity’, 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, ‘Time Destroys All Things: Gaspar Noé’s Carne (1991), I Stand Alone (1998) and Irréversible (2002)’ 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, Raphaëlle 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’ombre de moi-même (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’un 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 Krämer, 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).