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Veiled Desires: Intimate Portrayals of Nuns in Postwar Anglo-American Film
ISBN: 9780823252121
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Nuns in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History; Motion pictures -- United States -- History;

Veiled Desires is the first full-length study of the film nun to trace the shifting features of her screen representation in twelve or more postwar films that span a sixty-year period. It not only situates them within the changing history of modern women religious but employs an inter-disciplinary perspective to argue that the film nun projects a complex and often vexed portrait of both traditional religious and modern female desires.

Maureen Sabine is Professor of Literary, Cultural, and Religious Studies in the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong.