In her vibrant screen performance as Sister Benedict in 'The Bells of St. Mary's', Ingrid Bergman represented the film nun as a mature modern woman who had chosen the religious life with a 'complete understanding' of both erotic and spiritual desire. How did this engaging charac…
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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 a shining standard of comparison. She represented the religious life as the happy and rewarding choice of a modern woman who had a ""complet…
In a theologically and psychoanalytically informed argument, Sabine responds to the critics who have pigeon holed the film nun as the obedient daughter and religious handmaiden of a patriarchal church, and the respectful audience that revered her as an icon of spiritual perfecti…
In her vibrant screen performance as Sister Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary's, Ingrid Bergman represented the film nun as a mature modern woman who had chosen the religious life with a "complete understanding" of both erotic and spiritual desire. How did this engaging characte…