The Hepburn Effect: Communities of Women in Classic Film
Katharine Hepburn's star persona revolutionised Hollywood by enabling films centred on communities of women rather than male leads or romance....
Welcome, film star gazers
Armed with a Master's in Film and Literature from the University of York and an slight obsession with 1930s cinema, I apply feminist film theory to stardom studies—because someone needs to ask why Katharine Hepburn's trousers were a political statement and why Greta Garbo wanted to be alone and what this tells us about female autonomy. Let's explore how classic Hollywood's leading ladies negotiated power, representation, and identity within the studio system.
