Contesting Tears The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
Contesting Tears The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman By Stanley Cavell
1996 | 268 Pages | ISBN: 0226098141 | PDF | 27 MB
1996 | 268 Pages | ISBN: 0226098141 | PDF | 27 MB
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.