Description: Contesting Tears : The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman, Paperback by Cavell, Stanley, ISBN 0226098168, ISBN-13 9780226098166, Brand New, Free shipping in the US What 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.
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Book Title: Contesting Tears : the Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 1997
Topic: Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, General, Film / History & Criticism
Item Height: 0.5 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Family & Relationships, Drama, Performing Arts
Item Weight: 16.4 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Stanley Cavell
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
