Ginette Vincendeau is Emeritus Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London. She has written extensively on French cinema, notably popular genres, stars and women directors. Among her books as author are Pépé le Moko (BFI, 1998), Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (2000), Jean-Pierre Melville, an American in Paris (BFI, 2003), La Haine (2005), Brigitte Bardot (BFI, 2013) and Claude Autant-Lara (2026). She edited The Encyclopedia of European Cinema (BFI, 1995) and Film/Literature/Heritage (BFI, 2001) and co-edited, among others: French Film, Texts and Contexts (with Susan Hayward, 1990; 2000), Popular European Cinema (with Richard Dyer, 1992), A Companion to Jean Renoir (with Alastair Phillips, 2013) and The French New Wave, Critical Landmarks (with Peter Graham, BFI, 2009; 2023). She is co-Chief General Editor of French Screen Studies, with Mary Harrod.