132904
9780226098166
"Stanley Cavell...has never shied away from the problem of human happiness, even when it has led him--as in his study of the melodramas of 'Contesting Tears'--to face the distress of conditions inhospitable. 'The showing of pleasure at pleasure,' he writes in this book, 'is the giving of pleasure.' 'Contesting Tears' is a rare gift."Cavell, Stanley is the author of 'Contesting Tears The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman' with ISBN 9780226098166 and ISBN 0226098168.
[read more]