Growing Up with Audrey Hepburn

Rachel Moseley is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at University of Warwick

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. On the subject of Film Studies: Class, gender and the female spectatorClass, gender and 'resistance'Discourse and subjectivity2. 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 femininityFashion: A gendered attractionist aesthetic'Can't do it without make-up' : Natural, democratic beautyClever, not sexy: Hepburn and 'the Mammary Woman'3. Dress and subjectivity: Remembering AudreyDress and desire: The articulation of self through styleGrowing up with Audrey: Dress and subjectivityStyle, 'the look' and 'being a girl' in the 1950s and 1960sTalking about Audrey'Oh please God - let it happen to me!'Text and audience: Resonance and address4. Doing the Hepburn lookDifferenceBeing a girlClassy, not sexyNegotiating 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 1990sMothers and daughters'She's a real phoney' (Part Two)Nostalgia and escape from the post-modernDressing upHaving it allConclusionAppendix I - The main interviewsGlossary of symbolsThe intervieweesInterview questionsAppendix II - Extended interview extracts (Chapter 4)References and further readingFilmography

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