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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".
| ISBN | 0226098168 | | Pages | 272 | | ISBN13 | 9780226098166
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | The University of Chicago Press | | Weight (grammes) | 360 | | Imprint | University of Chicago Press | | Published in | Chicago, IL | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 226 | | Publication date | 06 Feb 1997 | | Width (mm) | 151 | | Library of Congress | PN1995.9.W | | Spine width (mm) | 17 | | DEWEY | 791.436 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | A Note on the Captions | | | | | | Preface | | | | | | Introduction | | 3 | | 1 | | Naughty Orators: Negation of Voices in Gaslight | | 47 | | 2 | | Psychoanalysis and Cinema: Moments of Letter from an Unknown Woman | | 81 | | 3 | | Ugly Duckling, Funny Butterfly: Bette Davis and Now, Voyager | | 115 | | 4 | | Postscript: To Whom It May Concern | | 151 | | 5 | | Stella's Taste: Reading Stella Dallas | | 197 | | | | Notes | | 223 | | | | Bibliography | | 231 | | | | Filmography | | 241 | | | | Index | | 243 |
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