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The American girl goes to war : women and national identity in US silent film / Liz Clarke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clarke, Liz, 1981- author.
- Series:
- War culture.
- War culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War films--United States--History and criticism.
- War films.
- Women in motion pictures--History--20th century.
- Women in motion pictures.
- Women and war--United States--History--20th century.
- Women and war.
- Nationalism--United States--History--20th century.
- Nationalism.
- Heroines in motion pictures--History--20th century.
- Heroines in motion pictures.
- Sex role in motion pictures--History--20th century.
- Sex role in motion pictures.
- Silent films--United States--History--20th century.
- Silent films.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "During the 1910s, films about war often featured a female protagonist. The films portrayed women as spies, cross-dressing soldiers, and athletic defenders of their homes-roles typically reserved for men and that contradicted gendered-expectations of home-front women waiting for their husbands, sons, and brothers to return from battle. The representation of American martial spirit-particularly in the form of heroines-has a rich history in film in the years just prior to the American entry into World War I. The American Girl Goes to War demonstrates the predominance of heroic female characters in in early narrative films about war from 1908 to 1919. American Girls were filled with the military spirit of their forefathers and became one of the major ways that American women's changing political involvement, independence, and active natures were contained by and subsumed into pre-existing American ideologies"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- American Girls and National Identity
- Fighting Femininity on Home Soil in Civil War Films, 1908 to
- American Revolution and Other Wars
- Featuring Preparedness and Peace; or, America and the European War, Part I
- From Serial Queens to Patriotic Heroines; or, America and the European War, Part II
- The American Girl and Wartime Patriotism
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781978810174
- 1978810172
- 9781978810198
- 1978810199
- OCLC:
- 1294145722
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