Katharine Hepburn: Star as FeministColumbia University Press, 2003 - Počet stran: 264 Of all the major Hollywood stars, Katharine Hepburn was the least conventional, conforming to none of the stereotypes of female superstardom. She was not an exotic outsider in Hollywood like Greta Garbo or Marlene Dietrich; nor was she a victim of the studios like Judy Garland or Marilyn Monroe; and she was certainly not a creature of the system like Joan Crawford and Lana Turner. Instead, she always appeared intelligent, willful and independent, able to develop her own persona within the confines of the studio system. 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 or a genre and as such is essential reading for anyone interested in the movies. First published in the United Kingdom twenty years ago, this lavishly illustrated new edition features a foreword by the noted film critic Robin Wood. |
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... American spinster in Venice in Summer Madness . From the early 1960s on , she played an aston- ishing range of heavyweight parts : Mrs. Venable in Suddenly , Last Summer , Mary Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night , Eleanor of ...
... American spinster in Venice in Summer Madness . From the early 1960s on , she played an aston- ishing range of heavyweight parts : Mrs. Venable in Suddenly , Last Summer , Mary Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night , Eleanor of ...
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... America in 2003 by Columbia University Press Film and Culture A series of Columbia University Press Edited by John ... American Film Theatre , Avco Embassy , British Film Institute , Cinerama , Columbia , ITC , MGM , Paramount , RKO ...
... America in 2003 by Columbia University Press Film and Culture A series of Columbia University Press Edited by John ... American Film Theatre , Avco Embassy , British Film Institute , Cinerama , Columbia , ITC , MGM , Paramount , RKO ...
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... AMERICAN PRINCESS 2. PUBLICITY 3. FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS 4. GENDER AND BISEXUALITY 5. THE FEMALE COMMUNITY 6. STARS AND GENRE 6 7 9 14 73 85 104 140 7. HEPBURN AND TRACY 169 8. THE OLD MAID 209 A NOTE ON CRYING 226 EPILOGUE : THE STAR AS ...
... AMERICAN PRINCESS 2. PUBLICITY 3. FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS 4. GENDER AND BISEXUALITY 5. THE FEMALE COMMUNITY 6. STARS AND GENRE 6 7 9 14 73 85 104 140 7. HEPBURN AND TRACY 169 8. THE OLD MAID 209 A NOTE ON CRYING 226 EPILOGUE : THE STAR AS ...
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... American culture , this radicalism blossoms during the ' thirties and withers in the ' fifties , the principle of recuperation taking dominance , the transgressions increasingly punished , the characters restored to a safe position ...
... American culture , this radicalism blossoms during the ' thirties and withers in the ' fifties , the principle of recuperation taking dominance , the transgressions increasingly punished , the characters restored to a safe position ...
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... times , though needless to say , she should not be blamed for the views I express . This book is dedicated to John Fletcher and Ed Gallafent , with my love . Andrew Britton . 1. An American Princess The Hepburn persona can be related 8.
... times , though needless to say , she should not be blamed for the views I express . This book is dedicated to John Fletcher and Ed Gallafent , with my love . Andrew Britton . 1. An American Princess The Hepburn persona can be related 8.
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AN AMERICAN PRINCESS | 9 |
PUBLICITY | 14 |
FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS | 73 |
GENDER AND BISEXUALITY | 85 |
THE FEMALE COMMUNITY | 104 |
STARS AND GENRE | 140 |
HEPBURN AND TRACY | 169 |
THE OLD MAID | 209 |
A NOTE ON CRYING | 226 |
THE STAR AS MONUMENT | 232 |
Filmography | 244 |
Bibliography | 251 |
Programme Notes | 253 |
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