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03814aam a2200589 i 4500 001 D9527566EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220617010046 008 210505s2022 njua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021016528 020 $a 1978810164 020 $a 9781978810167 020 $a 1978810156 020 $a 9781978810150 035 $a (OCoLC)1245472321 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d TFW $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN1995.9.W3 $b C563 2022 082 00 $a 791.43/6522 $2 23 100 1 $a Clarke, Liz, $d 1981- $e author. 245 14 $a The American girl goes to war : $b women and national identity in U.S. silent film / $c Liz Clarke. 264 1 $a New Brunswick : $b Rutgers University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a ix, 169 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a War culture 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 159 - 164) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a War films $z United States $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Women in motion pictures $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Women and war $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Nationalism $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Heroines in motion pictures $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Sex role in motion pictures $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Silent films $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Heroines in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00955622 650 7 $a Nationalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01033832 650 7 $a Sex role in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01114654 650 7 $a Silent films. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01118542 650 7 $a War films. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170482 650 7 $a Women and war. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177123 650 7 $a Women in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177931 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Clarke, Liz, 1981- $t American girl goes to war. $d New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022] $z 9781978810174 $w (OCoLC)1294145722 830 0 $a War culture. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014346.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010024505.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D9527566EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search