Veiled Desires
ISBN: 9780823252121
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion pictures; Nuns in motion pictures.;

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.

Sabine Maureen :

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


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