Front cover image for Contesting tears : the Hollywood drama of the unknown woman

Contesting tears : the Hollywood drama of the unknown woman

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".
Print Book, English, 1996
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1996
9780226098142, 9780226098166, 0226098141, 0226098168
1114912070
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