Veiled Desires Intimate Portrayals of Nuns in Postwar Anglo-American Film |
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Author:
| Sabine, Maureen |
ISBN: | 978-0-8232-5165-0 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | Fordham University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $90.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.