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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sabine, Maureen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nuns in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
ART > Film & Video.
Cinema > États-Unis > Histoire.
Cinema > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Motion pictures > United States > History.
Motion pictures > Great Britain > History.
United States.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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