An edition of Contesting Tears: the Hollywood melodrama of the unknown woman (1996)

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An edition of Contesting Tears: the Hollywood melodrama of the unknown woman (1996)

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University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Pages
255

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Subjects
Melodrama in motion pictures, Women in motion pictures, Motion pictures for women, Marriage in motion pictures, Film criticism, Melodrama, Marriage

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Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
February 1, 1997, University Of Chicago Press
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Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
February 15, 1997, University Of Chicago Press
in English
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Cover of: Contesting tears
Contesting tears: the Hollywood melodrama of the unknown woman
1996, University of Chicago Press
in English
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Contesting tears: the Hollywood melodrama of the unknown woman
1996, University of Chicago Press
in English
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Table of Contents

Naughty orators: negation of voice in Gaslight
Psychoanalysis and cinema: moments of Letter from an unknown woman
Ugly duckling, funny butterfly: Bette Davis and Now, voyager
Postscript: to whom it may concern
Stella's taste: reading Stella Dallas.

Edition Notes

Contains bibliography (p. 231-239), filmography (p. 241-242) and index.

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Library of Congress
PN1995.9.W6 C38 1996, PN1995.9.W6C38 1996

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Pagination
xvi, 255 p. :
Number of pages
255

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OL23241325M
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contestingtearsh0000cave
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0226098141, 0226098168
ISBN 13
9780226098142, 9780226098166
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96023834
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1161009
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1263209
385166

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"SOMETHING IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE unknown woman melodrama must bear, as I was saying, the weight borne by the weight of conversation in the case of remarriage comedy."

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