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Brigitte Bardot "Vincendeau, Ginette"

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: ; Film StarsPublication details: United Kingdom British Film Institute 27/02/2013Description: 184 PaperbackISBN:
  • 9781844574926
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4302809 GIN
Contents:
"Films, cinema"
Summary: "Brigitte Bardot's rise from fashion model and film starlet to global celebrity was meteoric and unprecedented: after her breakthrough role in Et Dieu ...crea la femme in 1956, audiences the world over rushed to see her films. Predating Beatlemania, she provoked mass hysteria: paparazzi stalked her, journalists, sociologists and novelists wrote about her; young women imitated her style. All at once sex bomb, radical proto-feminist and scandalous figurehead of a hedonistic and sexually free lifestyle, 'B.B.' was France's first mass-media star. In this original and illuminating study, film scholar and Bardot fan Ginette Vincendeau explores the star's complex and revolutionary image of femininity, her film career and her lasting and controversial celebrity. Analysing all Bardot's output, encompassing popular comedies and melodramas, work with New Wave directors Louis Malle and Jean-Luc Godard, and international productions such as Dear Brigitte (1965) and Shalako (1968), Vincendeau shows how Bardot's enduring fame is based on her status as a sexual, lifestyle, musical, and fashion role model and even, in her guise as Marianne, the emblem of the French Republic, an icon of national identity. Finally, she considers the ageing Bardot's continued prominence in popular culture through her own writings and animal rights activism, arguing that, as well as a glamorous film star, Bardot was one of the inventors of modern celebrity."
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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.

"Films, cinema"

"Brigitte Bardot's rise from fashion model and film starlet to global celebrity was meteoric and unprecedented: after her breakthrough role in Et Dieu ...crea la femme in 1956, audiences the world over rushed to see her films. Predating Beatlemania, she provoked mass hysteria: paparazzi stalked her, journalists, sociologists and novelists wrote about her; young women imitated her style. All at once sex bomb, radical proto-feminist and scandalous figurehead of a hedonistic and sexually free lifestyle, 'B.B.' was France's first mass-media star. In this original and illuminating study, film scholar and Bardot fan Ginette Vincendeau explores the star's complex and revolutionary image of femininity, her film career and her lasting and controversial celebrity. Analysing all Bardot's output, encompassing popular comedies and melodramas, work with New Wave directors Louis Malle and Jean-Luc Godard, and international productions such as Dear Brigitte (1965) and Shalako (1968), Vincendeau shows how Bardot's enduring fame is based on her status as a sexual, lifestyle, musical, and fashion role model and even, in her guise as Marianne, the emblem of the French Republic, an icon of national identity. Finally, she considers the ageing Bardot's continued prominence in popular culture through her own writings and animal rights activism, arguing that, as well as a glamorous film star, Bardot was one of the inventors of modern celebrity."

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter one covers Bardot's training as a ballet dancer and early career as a fashion model, and rise to stardom
  • Chapter 2
  • 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 3
  • 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 4
  • 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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