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

About the Author

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.
 

Reviews

“Documenting the many heroic women who populated war films of this era, Liz Clarke shows the strength and vitality of female characters onscreen, while remaining attentive to the key role that white femininity played in narratives of American national identity during this period. Framing her analysis within a rich cultural context, Clarke show how essential cinema was to evolving ideas about both nationhood and femininity in the first decades of the twentieth century.”
*author of Movie-Struck Girls and Lois Weber in Early Hollywood*

"Brock prof’s new book explores women, war and silent film," by Amanda Bishop
*The Brock News*

"This exciting, well-researched work crosses multidisciplinary boundaries and will be of value to those interested in cinema, gender studies, propaganda, history, and political science. Recommended for academic libraries."
*Library Journal*

New Books Network: New Books in Women's History interview with Liz Clarke
*New Books Network: New Books in Women's History*