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Brigitte Bardot
Ginette Vincendeau analyses Bardot's rise to fame as a highly-acclaimed French international film star and fashion icon from her early days as a fashion model and ballet dancer to her period of 'high stardom' between 1956 and 1960.
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Brigitte Bardot
Ginette Vincendeau analyses Bardot's rise to fame as a highly-acclaimed French international film star and fashion icon from her early days as a fashion model and ballet dancer to her period of 'high stardom' between 1956 and 1960.
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Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot

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Overview

Ginette Vincendeau analyses Bardot's rise to fame as a highly-acclaimed French international film star and fashion icon from her early days as a fashion model and ballet dancer to her period of 'high stardom' between 1956 and 1960.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781844574926
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Publication date: 04/02/2013
Series: Film Stars Series
Edition description: 2013
Pages: 184
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

GINETTE VINCENDEAU is Professor in Film Studies at King's College London. Her publications include La Haine (2005), Jean-Pierre
Melville: An American in Paris (2003) and Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (2000). She co-edited The French New Wave: Critical Landmarks (2009) with Peter Graham and, with Alastair Phillips, A Companion to Jean Renoir (2013) and Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood (2006). She is the editor of the Cine-Files French Film Guides series and a regular contributor to Sight & Sound.

Table of Contents


Introduction

Chapter One
Chapter one covers Bardot's training as a ballet dancer and early career as a fashion model, and rise to stardom.

Chapter Two
Chapter two examines Bardot's roles and performance style in the films she made during her period of 'high stardom' between 1956 and 1960.

Chapter Three
Chapter three examines the second half of Bardot's cinematic career, from 1960 to her last film in 1973, when she took the decistion to stop acting.

Chapter Four
Chapter four examines Bardot's long post-cinematic celebrity, which has clearly outlived her 'retirement' in 1973.

Conclusion

Appendices:
Filmography
Box-office figures for Bardot's films
Bibliography

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A serious and well-researched account of Brigitte Bardot as a movie star and cultural phenomenom.' – Sight & Sound

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