| #2049570 in Books | Fordham University Press | 2013-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.90 x.80 x8.90l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 320 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Well Done|By Geneal M. Kramer|This is a most illuminating book on the history of religious life of sisters as seen in film. The author states her premis early on and goes on to build her case as she reviews most of the films from the forties on that potray thel ife of the sister. Well done.|1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Ingrid, D|||"The 'nun film' has been a significant genre in Anglo-American cinema through most of the second half of the twentieth century. Maureen Sabine's is the most impressive treatment to date of a genre that has sadly been neglected in the literature of film studi
A provocative, interdisciplinary study of nuns on the big screen, from The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) to Doubt (2008), that shines fresh light on the cinematic nun as a woman and a religious in the twentieth century.
Ingrid Bergman's engaging screen performance as Sister Mary Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary's made the film nun a star and her character...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Veiled Desires: Intimate Portrayals of Nuns in Postwar Anglo-American Film | Maureen Sabine. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
