TY - BOOK ID - 120515705 TI - American Girl Goes to War : Women and National Identity in U. S. Silent Film PY - 2022 SN - 1978810172 1978810199 1978810156 1978810164 PB - New Brunswick Rutgers University Press DB - UniCat KW - War films KW - Women in motion pictures KW - Women and war KW - Nationalism KW - Heroines in motion pictures KW - Sex role in motion pictures KW - Silent films KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - United States. KW - America, film, war, media studies, communications, military, history, popular culture, gender, national identity, silent film, protagonist, heroine, politics, independence, femininity, Civil War, wartime, gender roles, social norms, World War I. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:120515705 AB - "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"-- ER -