{"product_id":"veiled-desires-intimate-portrayals-of-nuns-in-postwar-anglo-american-film-9780823251667","title":"Veiled Desires: Intimate Portrayals of Nuns in Postwar Anglo-American Film","description":"\u003cp\u003eIngrid Bergman's engaging screen performance as Sister Mary Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary's made the film nun a star and her character a shining standard of comparison. She represented the religious life as the happy and rewarding choice of a modern woman who had a \"complete understanding\" of both erotic and spiritual desire. How did this vibrant and mature nun figure come to be viewed as girlish and naïve? Why have she and her cinematic sisters in postwar popular film so often been stereotyped or selectively analyzed, so seldom been seen as women and religious?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eVeiled Desires\u003c\/em\u003e--a unique full-length, in-depth look at nuns in film--Maureen Sabine explores these questions in a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study covering more than sixty years of cinema. She looks at an impressive breadth of films in which the nun features as an ardent lead character, including\u003cem\u003e The Bells of St. Mary's\u003c\/em\u003e (1945), \u003cem\u003eBlack Narcissus\u003c\/em\u003e (1947), \u003cem\u003eHeaven Knows, Mr. Allison \u003c\/em\u003e(1957), \u003cem\u003eSea Wife\u003c\/em\u003e (1957), \u003cem\u003eThe Nun's Story\u003c\/em\u003e (1959), \u003cem\u003eThe Sound of Music\u003c\/em\u003e (1965), \u003cem\u003eChange of Habit \u003c\/em\u003e(1969), \u003cem\u003e In This House of Brede\u003c\/em\u003e (1975), \u003cem\u003eAgnes of God \u003c\/em\u003e(1985), \u003cem\u003eDead Man Walking\u003c\/em\u003e (1995), and \u003cem\u003eDoubt \u003c\/em\u003e(2008).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVeiled Desires\u003c\/em\u003e considers how the beautiful and charismatic stars who play chaste nuns, from Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn to Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep, call attention to desires that the veil concealed and the habit was thought to stifle. In a theologically and psychoanalytically informed argument, Sabine responds to the critics who have pigeonholed the film nun as the obedient daughter and religious handmaiden of a patriarchal church, and the respectful audience who revered her as an icon of spiritual perfection. Sabine provides a framework for a more complex and holistic picture of nuns onscreen by showing how the films dramatize these women's Christian call to serve, sacrifice, and dedicate themselves to God, and their erotic desire for intimacy, agency, achievement, and fulfillment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maureen Sabine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823251667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaureen Sabine \u003c\/strong\u003eis a professor of History at the University of Hong Kong. Her previous books include \u003cem\u003eMaxine Hong Kingston's Broken Book of Life\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFeminine Engendered Faith: John Donne and Richard Crashaw\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40201453600883,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":35.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_6a313f72-7605-4e67-864a-ee2bb66be18d.jpg?v=1656165432","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/veiled-desires-intimate-portrayals-of-nuns-in-postwar-anglo-american-film-9780823251667","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}