Veiled desires
Sabine, Maureen.
Veiled desires intimate portrayals of nuns in postwar Anglo-American film / [electronic resource] : Maureen Sabine. - First edition. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm)
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).
9780823251674
Motion pictures--History.--United States
Motion pictures--History.--Great Britain
Nuns in motion pictures.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.N95 / S23 2013
791.430941
Veiled desires intimate portrayals of nuns in postwar Anglo-American film / [electronic resource] : Maureen Sabine. - First edition. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm)
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).
9780823251674
Motion pictures--History.--United States
Motion pictures--History.--Great Britain
Nuns in motion pictures.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.N95 / S23 2013
791.430941