Katharine Hepburn: Star as Feminist

Katharine Hepburn: Star as Feminist
ISBN-10
023113276X
ISBN-13
9780231132763
Series
Katharine Hepburn
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Andrew Britton

Description

In what can be considered one of the very few analyses of American cinema to focus on a film star rather than a director or a genre, 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.

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