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Stanley Cavell explores a genre, which he calls "the melodrama of the unknown woman," through close readings of four melodramas he finds definitive of the genre: "Letter from an Unknown Woman", "Gaslight", "Now Voyager", and "Stella Dallas".

Contesting Tears The Hollywood Melodrama of the

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/02/1997
      ISBN13: 9780226098166, 978-0226098166
      ISBN10: 0226098168
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      Book Synopsis
      Stanley Cavell explores a genre, which he calls "the melodrama of the unknown woman," through close readings of four melodramas he finds definitive of the genre: "Letter from an Unknown Woman", "Gaslight", "Now Voyager", and "Stella Dallas".

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