Growing Up With Audrey Hepburn: Text, Audience, Resonance

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List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. On the subject of Film Studies: Class, gender and the female spectator Class, gender and 'resistance' Discourse and subjectivity 2. Audrey Hepburn: A woman's star 'She's a phoney, but she's a real phoney': Construction, transparency and authenticity 'Once upon a time.': Fairy-tales, fashion and femininity Fashion: A gendered attractionist aesthetic 'Can't do it without make-up' : Natural, democratic beauty Clever, not sexy: Hepburn and 'the Mammary Woman' 3. Dress and subjectivity: Remembering Audrey Dress and desire: The articulation of self through style Growing up with Audrey: Dress and subjectivity Style, 'the look' and 'being a girl' in the 1950s and 1960s Talking about Audrey 'Oh please God - let it happen to me!' Text and audience: Resonance and address 4. Doing the Hepburn look Difference Being a girl Classy, not sexy Negotiating the social: Growing up, looking 'nice', wearing black 'She was everything. And it was all within reach, if you like' 5. Audrey's Cinderellas: Dress and status in the 1950s and 1960s 'You shall go to the ball.' Love, marriage and the domestic 'I admit I came to Paris to escape American Provincial, but that doesn't mean I'm ready for French Traditional!' 'I'm a respectable girl, so I am.' 6. Audrey Hepburn, nostalgia and post-feminism in the 1990s Mothers and daughters 'She's a real phoney' (Part Two) Nostalgia and escape from the post-modern Dressing up Having it all Conclusion Appendix I - The main interviews Glossary of symbols The interviewees Interview questions Appendix II - Extended interview extracts (Chapter 4) References and further reading Filmography

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