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Veiled Desires : Intimate Portrayals of Nuns in Postwar Anglo-American Film /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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).