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Katharine Hepburn

Star As Feminist

Katharine Hepburn( )
Author: Britton, Andrew
Britton, Andrew
Foreword by: Wood, Robin
Series title:Film and Culture Ser.
ISBN:978-0-231-13277-0
Publication Date:Dec 2003
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $52.95
Book Description:

Andrew Britton proposes a feminist reading of Hepburn's films, arguing that her persona raises problems about class, female sexuality, and women's oppression that strain to the limits the conventions of a cinema ultimately committed to the reassertion of bourgeois gender roles. Hepburn's work is also used to explore more general issues, such as the functioning of the star system. This is one of the very few analyses of American cinema to focus on a film star rather than a director...
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Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Book Weight:0.682 Kilograms



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