A01=Stanley Cavell
Author_Stanley Cavell
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226098166
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 1997
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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".
