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Contesting Tears : The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
Overview
The author 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 the author a moral perfectionism he identifies as Emersonian.
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- ISBN-13: 9780226098166
- ISBN-10: 0226098168
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish Date: February 1997
- Dimensions: 9.01 x 6.05 x 0.67 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.78 pounds
- Page Count: 272
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