Contesting Tears

副标题: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman

ISBN: 9780226098142

出版社: University Of Chicago Press

出版年: 1997-02-15

页数: 272

定价: USD 59.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

Stanley Cavell identified a genre of classic American films that engaged these questions in his study of comedies of remarriage, "Pursuits of Happiness". With "Contesting Tears", Cavell demonstrates that a contrasting genre, which he calls "the melodrama of the unknown woman," shares a surprising number and weave of concerns with those comedies. Cavell provides close readings of four melodramas he finds definitive of the genre: "Letter from an Unknown Woman", "Gaslight", "Now Voyager", and "Stella Dallas".