I could advance a lesbian interpretation of Audrey Hepburn’s oeuvre, though that is not my present aim: instead, I wish to inquire into reverberations between Audrey’s consciousness and the interiors of other stars. The pulse points that most fascinate me are relations between Hepburn and other female luminaries, including Colette, Edith Head, Deborah Kerr, Leslie Caron, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Judy Garland, Elizabeth Taylor, Marni Nixon, Julie Andrews, Mia Farrow, Jeanne Moreau, Merle Oberon, Capucine and Cher. The new biography of Audrey Hepburn, by Barry Paris, a writer already praised for his books on Louise Brooks and Garbo, is an acute, tender-hearted and entertaining dish of Hepburn facts – he interviewed friends and family, and has a sharp eye for her film-work’s idiosyncrasies more important, he offers a grid for dream inquiries into star consciousness. Rather, we may use star chronicles as springboards for philosophical investigations, however careless and impromptu, into our own sightlines.
Such moments dominate a certain 20th century, and so it is a mistake to consider a star biography as merely the linear tale of a performing life’s progress. Few writers have tried to describe ineffable instances of stars perceiving other stars and stars perceiving their own stardom. Huge gulfs divide a star in daily life from a star on screen the style in which a star executes an action (film role, household chore, errand, ambassadorial mission) is not the style in which she secretly contemplates her colleagues. Though I am interested in their behaviour, I am more interested in the curves and austerities of their cognition. OL2402487W Page_number_confidence 56.99 Pages 502 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220211225402 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 653 Scandate 20220125202907 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780425182123 Tts_version 4.I read star biographies to find out how stars see themselves and how they see each other. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:16:48 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40338418 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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