Veiled desires
An edition of Veiled desires (2013)
Intimate Portrayals of Nuns in Postwar Anglo-American Film
By Maureen Sabine
Publish Date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Language
eng
Pages
338
Description:
In a theologically and psychoanalytically informed argument, Sabine responds to the critics who have pigeon holed the film nun as the obedient daughter and religious handmaiden of a patriarchal church, and the respectful audience that revered her as an icon of spiritual perfection. Sabine provides a framework for a more complex and holistic picture of nuns onscreen by showing how the films dramatize these women's Christian call to serve, sacrifice, and dedicate themselves to God, and their erotic desire for intimacy, agency, achievement, and fulfillment. -- Back cover.