Synopsis
Examining her theater, film, and television work chronologically, this text explores the career of French film actress Simone Signoret, examining how her work challenged traditional representations of gender, embodied three types of eroticism (a clean erotics, an erotics of power, and an erotics of desire), and deconstructed political and cultural myths of wartime and post-war France. In short, argues the author, Signoret offered a new history of the female body through her performances. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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About the Author
Susan Hayward is Professor of French at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (2000) and co-editor of French Film: Texts and Contexts (2000).
Review
“...the best book to date in English on the subject. Essential.” –Choice, February 2005 (CHOICE)
"...SimoneSignoret: The Star as Cultural Sign offers breadth alongside specificity,cultural study with film history. Most importantly, it presents a much neededstudy of both the persona as well as the physical presence of one of the mostwell-known French actresses and icons whose erotically charged performancesmade her internationally recognized at home and abroad." — Film International #17, 2005 (Film International)
“...SimoneSignoret: The Star as Cultural Sign offers breadth alongside specificity,cultural study with film history. Most importantly, it presents a much neededstudy of both the persona as well as the physical presence of one of the mostwell-known French actresses and icons whose erotically charged performancesmade her internationally recognized at home and abroad.” – Film International #17, 2005 (Sanford Lakoff)
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