Veiled desires : intimate portrayals of nuns in postwar Anglo-American film /

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In her vibrant screen performance as Sister Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary's, Ingrid Bergman represented the film nun as a mature modern woman who had chosen the religious life with a "complete understanding" of both erotic and spiritual desire. How did this engaging character and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sabine, Maureen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Nuns in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Great Britain > History.
Motion pictures > United States > History.
Cinéma > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Cinéma > États-Unis > Histoire.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
Motion pictures.
Great Britain.
United States.
Agape and Eros.
Catholicism.
Cultural Studies.
Desire.
Faith.
Feminism.
Freud.
Gender Politics.
Postwar Film.
Spirituality and Sexuality.
Twentieth-Century Religious Life and History.
nuns.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Selfless desires : sacrificial and self-fulfilling service to others in Casablanca (1942), The bells of St. Mary's (1945), and The inn of the sixth happiness (1958)
  • Sexual desires : repression and sublimation in Black narcissus (1947), Heaven knows, Mr. Allison (1957), and, Sea wife (1957)
  • Subjective desires : the role of the Catholic family romance in The nun's story (1959)
  • Sonorous desires : sweet, spirited, and stirring voices in The sound of music (1965) and Change of habit (1969)
  • Sacred desires : passion and pathology in In this house of Brede (1975) and Agnes of God (1985)
  • Spiritual desires : sin, suffering, death, and salvation in Dead man walking (1995)
  • Conclusion : suspect desires : the end of a religious illusion in Doubt (2008).

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