Ginette Vincendeau

Who is Ginette Vincendeau?

Ginette Vincendeau is a French-born British-based academic who is a Professor of Film Studies at King's College London.

Vincendeau was educated at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, gaining a degree in English and at the University of East Anglia, where she completed a doctorate in Film Studies. Before assuming her post at King's, Vincendeau was Professor of Film Studies at Warwick University.

A regular contributor to Sight & Sound magazine, she is the editor of The Encyclopedia of European Cinema and biographer of director Jean-Pierre Melville.