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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226098168
ISBN-139780226098166
eBay Product ID (ePID)557016
Product Key Features
Book TitleContesting Tears : the Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
TopicMarriage & Long-Term Relationships, General, Film / History & Criticism
IllustratorYes
GenreFamily & Relationships, Drama, Performing Arts
AuthorStanley Cavell
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight16.4 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN96-023834
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal791.43/652042
Table Of ContentA Note on the Captions Preface Introduction 1: Naughty Orators: Negation of Voices in Gaslight 2: Psychoanalysis and Cinema: Moments of Letter from an Unknown Woman 3: Ugly Duckling, Funny Butterfly: Bette Davis and Now, Voyager 4: Postscript: To Whom It May Concern 5: Stella's Taste: Reading Stella Dallas Notes Bibliography Filmography Index
SynopsisWhat is marriage? Can a relationship dedicated to equality, friendship, and mutual education flower in an atmosphere of romance? What are the paths between loving another and knowing another? 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 . The women in these melodramas, like the women in the comedies, demand equality, shared education, and transfiguration, exemplifying for Cavell a moral perfectionism he identifies as Emersonian. But unlike the comedies, which portray a quest for a shared existence of expressiveness and joy, the melodramas trace instead the woman's recognition that in this quest she is isolated. Part of the melodrama concerns the various ways the men in the films (and the audiences of the films) interpret and desire to force the woman's consequent inaccessibility. "Film is an interest of mine," Stanley Cavell has written, "or say a love, not separate from my interest in, or love of, philosophy." In Contesting Tears Cavell once again brilliantly unites his two loves, using detailed and perceptive musings on melodrama to reflect on philosophical problems of skepticism, psychoanalysis, and perfectionism. As he shows, the fascination and intelligence of such great stars as Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, and Barbara Stanwyck illuminate, as they are illuminated by, the topics and events of these beloved and enduring films.
LC Classification NumberPN1995.9.W6C38 1996
