The American girl goes to war : women and national identity in U.S. silent film
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The American girl goes to war : women and national identity in U.S. silent film
(War culture)
Rutgers University Press, c2022
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-164) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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