The American Girl Goes to War

Women and National Identity in U.S. Silent Film

Liz Clarke (Autor)

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184 Seiten

2022
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-1016-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

LIZ CLARKE is an assistant professor in communication, popular culture and film at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. She has published articles in Camera Obscura and Feminist Media Histories, as well as papers in edited anthologies New Perspectives on the War Film and Martial Culture, Silver Screen: War Movies and the Construction of American Identity.

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1 American Girls and National Identity

2 Fighting Femininity on Home Soil in Civil War Films, 1908–1916

3 The American Revolution and Other Wars

4 Featuring Preparedness and Peace: America and the European War, Part I

5 From Serial Queens to Patriotic Heroines: America and the European War, Part II

6 The American Girl and Wartime Patriotism

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Civil War Films, 1908–1916

Appendix 2: World War I Films, 1914–1919

Additional Filmography

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2022
Zusatzinfo	15 b-w images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	4 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-9788-1016-4 / 1978810164
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-1016-7 / 9781978810167
Zustand	Neuware