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

Title
  1. Veiled desires : intimate portrayals of nuns in postwar Anglo-American film / Maureen Sabine.
Published by
  1. New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Author
  1. Sabine, Maureen.

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Description
  1. ix, 338 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  1. Motion pictures > Great Britain > History
  2. Motion pictures > United States > History
  3. Nuns in motion pictures
Contents
  1. 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
  1. JFE 13-7748
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Sabine, Maureen.
Title
  1. Veiled desires : intimate portrayals of nuns in postwar Anglo-American film / Maureen Sabine.
Publisher
  1. New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Edition
  1. First edition.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN
  1. 2012050170
Other standard identifier
  1. 40022617049
ISBN
  1. 9780823251650 (cloth : alk. paper)
  2. 0823251659 (cloth : alk. paper)
  3. 9780823251667 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  4. 0823251667 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. JFE 13-7748
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