Growing Up With Audrey Hepburn: Text, Audience, Resonance

Growing up with Audrey Hepburn is the first full-length academic study of one of the most loved stars of Hollywood cinema. A study of both Hepburn's star persona and films, it is also an audience study, using interviews to explore accounts given by British women who have admired her in the 1950s and 1960s, and, more recently, in the 1990s.

Biographies & Memoirs

Moseley, Rachel

Arts & Literature

Manchester University Press

The first full length academic study of Hepburn's star persona and films featuring reseach into the experience of British women who have admired her in the 1950s, 1960s and the 1990s. Examines the historical specificity of discourses of feminity circulating around Hepburn and her female fans, suggesting that the flexibility of Hepburn's image has contributed to her enduring appeal. Makes a significant contribution to the growing field of star studies. Argues that class and gender are siginifcant factors in the relatonship between stars and audiences.

Picturing Cornwall: Landscape, Region and the Moving Image

Cornwall’s representation on screen has been dominated by the romantic coastal edge, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham’s maritime adventure series Poldark. Drawing on art history to illuminate the construction of Cornwall on film, Rachel Moseley examines newsreels, contemporary art and amateur films, and mainstream film and television. Stressing the sociopolitical significance of the moving image, Moseley investigates the absence of Cornwall’s interior on film, arguing that the emphasis on the coast in Cornwall’s screen history has had a significant and ongoing economic impact on the area. The first book to focus on the region’s construction in the moving image, Picturing Cornwall is sure to generate new lines of inquiry across both film studies and human geography.

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

University of Exeter Press

Cornwall’s representation on screen has been dominated by the romantic coastal edge, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham’s maritime adventure series Poldark. Drawing on art history to illuminate the construction of Cornwall on film, Rachel Moseley examines newsreels, contemporary art and amateur films, and mainstream film and television. Stressing the sociopolitical significance of the moving image, Moseley investigates the absence of Cornwall’s interior on film, arguing that the emphasis on the coast in Cornwall’s screen history has had a significant and ongoing economic impact on the area. The first book to focus on the region’s construction in the moving image, Picturing Cornwall is sure to generate new lines of inquiry across both film studies and human geography.

Fashioning Film Stars: Dress, Culture, Identity

Fashioning Film Stars brings together work by established and emerging scholars in the field of film costume and star studies, to address the significance of the relationships between fashion, dress and star image. While studies of individual stars have often commented on the importance of style to the construction of their persona, such work has until now remained largely focused upon the female Hollywood, or occasionally European, star. This scholarly and readable volume redresses that balance, offering close analyses of the detail and significance of male and female star style in Hollywood. European, Asian and Latin American contexts. It brings together a range of theoretical and methodological frameworks from textual analysis, archival research and audience study to offer, for the first time, a detailed consideration of the importance of the fashioning of film stars. Fashioning Film Stars asks: how does dress operate in relation to stardom to articulate particular identities - gendered, national, classed, ethnic, sexual? How, precisely, does film costume operate, and how is it understood, semiotically, socially, culturally? Does star dress 'disappear' against the body as 'clothes', or speak out performatively as 'costume' or 'spectacle'? It answers them in an engaging and accessible volume which will be of interest to film scholars and film fans alike.

British Film Institute

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Growing Up With Audrey Hepburn: Text, Audience, Resonance

Growing Up With Audrey Hepburn: Text, Audience, Resonance

Picturing Cornwall: Landscape, Region and the Moving Image

Picturing Cornwall: Landscape, Region and the Moving Image

Fashioning Film Stars: Dress, Culture, Identity