Les « étoiles » de Hollywood vues par une Canadienne-Française: la culture de la célébrité dans les textes de Louise Gilbert-Sauvage pour Le Samedi (1936-1958)

Abstract

This papier studies how French-Canadian celebrity journalism represented Hollywood stars between the 1930s and the end of the 1950s by analyzing the mediatic production of one of the first female reporter in Los Angeles, Louise Gilbert-Sauvage. Through a group of a hundred texts published in the magazine Le Samedi, it explores how public figures engage with journalistic practices in Quebec periodicals. By approaching celebrity both as a narrative figure and an agent of cultural change, it offers some key features to assess how celebrity culture intervenes into the mediatic context of the mid-twentieth century.