Katharine Hepburn

Download or read book Katharine Hepburn written by Andrew Britton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.