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Katharine Hepburn Star as Feminist Andrew Britton Paperback Book Film Biography

Hepburn's work is also used to explore more general issues, such as the functioning of the star system. Of all the major Hollywood stars, Katharine Hepburn was the least conventional, conforming to none of the stereotypes of female superstardom.

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Book Title	Katharine Hepburn Star as Feminist
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Narrative Type	Non-Fiction
Publisher	Columbia University Press
Original Language	English
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Publication Year	2003
Type	Novel
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Language	English
Author	Andrew Britton
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Topic	Books, Film, Movies, True Stories, Screen Legend, Actress
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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.