Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman

by Stanley Cavell

Book Overview

What is marriage? Can a relationship dedicated to equality, friendship, and mutual education flower in an atmosphere of romance? What are the paths between loving another and knowing another? 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226098168
• ISBN13: 9780226098166
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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THE BOOK IS THE CUMULATIVE RESULT OF CAVELL'S REMARKABLE QUEST TO BRING PHILOSOPHY BACK TO THE HUMANITIES.