Veiled desires : intimate portrayals of nuns in postwar Anglo-American film
- Title
- Veiled desires : intimate portrayals of nuns in postwar Anglo-American film / Maureen Sabine.
- Published by
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- ix, 338 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subject
- 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).
- Call number
- JFE 13-7748
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Author
- Sabine, Maureen.
- Title
- Veiled desires : intimate portrayals of nuns in postwar Anglo-American film / Maureen Sabine.
- Publisher
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- LCCN
- 2012050170
- Other standard identifier
- 40022617049
- ISBN
- 9780823251650 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0823251659 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780823251667 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0823251667 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Research call number
- JFE 13-7748