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
