Veiled desires [electronic resource] : intimate portrayals of nuns in postwar Anglo-American film / Maureen Sabine.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.Edition: 1st edDescription: ix, 338 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 791.430941 23
- PN1995.9.N95 S23 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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