Veiled Desires: Intimate Portrayals of Nuns in Postwar Anglo-American Film

Veiled Desires: Intimate Portrayals of Nuns in Postwar Anglo-American Film
ISBN-10
0823251659
ISBN-13
9780823251650
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
338
Language
English
Published
2013-08
Publisher
Fordham Univ Press
Author
Maureen Sabine

Description

Veiled Desires is the first full-length study of the film nun to trace the shifting features of her screen representation in twelve or more postwar films that span a sixty-year period. It not only situates them within the changing history of modern women religious but employs an inter-disciplinary perspective to argue that the film nun projects a complex and often vexed portrait of both traditional religious and modern female desires.

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