Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown...

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Published January 20, 1997 at 11:00 PM CST

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Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman" by Stanley Cavell (U. of Chicago Press) about the weepy women''s movies of the 30s and 40s.

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