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Taylor, Dabrina. "Fair Lady, Huckleberry Friend: Freedom and Femininity in the Image of Audrey Hepburn, 1953-1967," American Studies Program, University of Maryland, April 1997.
This dissertation adapts a cultural studies framework for investigating star images in order to trace the intertextual processes through which Audrey Hepburn’s inimitable persona symbolically negotiated a complex and contradictory definition of mainstream femininity shaped by postwar America’s culture of containment. The dissertation examines key aspects of Hepburn’s public image—the star’s gamine androgyny, her associations with Europe, her identity as a “best-dressed” couture customer, and the Cinderella motif structuring her most celebrated films—across a spectrum of representational practices, developing an interdisciplinary framework from feminist film and literary theory, social history, and costume scholarship.
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