Visual Habits: Nuns, Feminism, and American Postwar Popular Culture.(ARTS & CULTURE)

From: Catholic New Times | Date: January 29, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Visual Habits: Nuns, Feminism, and American Postwar Popular Culture by Rebecca Sullivan (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), 255 pages, paperback.

With the recent death of actress Anne Bancroft, the entertainment news media aired countless dips of her Oscar-winning performances in The Miracle Worker and The Graduate. For me, however, the most captivating of Bancroft's screen roles is her portrayal of the domineering Mother Superior in Agnes of God, a must-see performance for fans of convent flicks. If that's your genre, Rebecca Sullivan's Visual Habits will be of ...

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