ABSTRACT

This article explores the public articulations of Céline Sciamma’s authorial persona and the media construction of her image (including her own self-presentation), arguing that her high visibility, combined with her ability to crystallise socially relevant values on and off screen, has broadened her cultural impact from the elite cinephile culture of her films to the larger terrain of stardom and celebrity culture. Under examination is how Sciamma strategically deploys different discourses to address diverse constituencies, from a reaffirmation of aesthetics bringing cultural legitimacy in the French cinephile milieu to feminist militancy aimed at the film industry and a broad left-wing political agenda as well as an iconic presence in the queer community, turning her into a ‘standard-bearer’ for a new generation of auteures. Considering the filmmaker through the prism of star and celebrity studies helps understand how such apparent contradictions are both intrinsic to the construction of her persona as a celebrity and inherent to the complex cultural context of early twenty-first-century gender politics in France.

摘要

本文探讨了席琳·席安玛作者形象的公开表述以及她形象的媒体构建（包括她自己的自我展示），认为她的高知名度，加上她在银幕内外具体化社会相关价值观的能力，拓宽了她的视野。从她电影中的精英影迷文化到更广泛的明星和名人文化的文化影响。席安玛如何战略性地部署不同的话语来应对不同的群体，从重申在法国影迷环境中带来文化合法性的美学，到针对电影业的女权主义激进主义和广泛的左翼政治议程，以及在电影界的标志性存在，正在受到审查。酷儿群体，使她成为新一代导演的“旗手”。