Katharine Hepburn Star As Feminist

Name: Katharine Hepburn Star As Feminist
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ISBN: 9780231132770

ISBN-10: 0231132778

ISBN-13: 9780231132770

Edition: 2004

Authors: Andrew Britton, Robin Wood, Andrew Britton

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The late Andrew Britton offers a feminist reading of Hepburn's films, arguing that her persona raises problems about class, female sexuality and women's oppression which strain to the limits the conventions of a bourgeois cinema.

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Robin Wood is a founding editor of CineActionand author of Hitchcock's Films Revisited(Revised Edition, Columbia, 2002) and Sexual Politics and Narrative Film(Columbia, 1998). He is professor emeritus at York University and the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema Studies.



Foreword



Why Hepburn?



An American Princess



Publicity



Fathers and Daughters



Gender and Bisexuality



The Female Community



Stars and Genre



Hepburn and Tracy



The Old Maid


A Note on Crying


Epilogue: The Star as Monument


Filmography


Bibliography


Programme Notes


Index