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Title: The American Girl Goes to War : Women and National Identity in U.S. Silent Film
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.
Authors: Liz Clarke
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Subjects: Heroines in motion pictures--History--20th century, Sex role in motion pictures--History--20th century, Silent films--United States--History--20th century, Nationalism--United States--History--20th century, War films--United States--History and criticism, Women in motion pictures--History--20th century, Women and war--United States--History--20th century
Categories: PERFORMING ARTS / General, HISTORY / Military / United States, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women"s Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Women
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