Susan Hayward is Emeritus Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Exeter. Her publications include "Luc Besson "(1998), "French National Cinema "(second edition, Routledge, 2005), "Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign "(2004), "Les Diaboliques "(2005), "Nikita" (2010), "French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics" (2010).