About the Author

Brigitte Rollet is Associate Researcher at the Centre d'Histoire Culturelle des Sociétés Contemporaines of the Université of Versailles Saint-Quentin and part-time lecturer in French cinema and Gender at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Reims). She has published widely on French cinema and television from a gender perspective and is the author of Coline Serreau (MUP, 1998), Télévision et Homosexualité: 10 ans de fictions françaises (1995–2005) (L’Harmattan, 2007), and co-author with Carrie Tarr of Cinema and the Second Sex: Women’s Filmmaking in France in the 1980s and 1990s (Continuum, 2001). Her most recent co-editions are Genre et légitimité culturelle (2007), and the proceedings of the 5th Popular European Cinema Conference (2009). Her monograph on Jacqueline Audry will be published shortly.