Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman - Stanley Cavell - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226098142 - February 15, 1997
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Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman


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Stanley Cavell explores a genre, which he calls "the melodrama of the unknown woman," through close readings of four melodramas he finds definitive of the genre: "Letter from an Unknown Woman", "Gaslight", "Now Voyager", and "Stella Dallas".


272 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released February 15, 1997
ISBN13 9780226098142
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 272
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   510 g
Language English  

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