Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman

by Stanley Cavell

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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".
  • ISBN10 0226098168
  • ISBN13 9780226098166
  • Publish Date 1 February 1997
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Chicago Press