YANKEE DOODLE DONNA?: THE GENDERING OF PATRIOTISM IN FILMS FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO THE COLD WAR
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This paper examines how Hollywood has portrayed patriotism in films from the Civil War to the Cold War. It analyzes how one's patriotism, depending on one's gender, was to be displayed. It investigates the question of whether the ideals of patriotism change from generation to generation and, if so, how the manner in which men and women express this ideal becomes altered as the screen images take their audiences from the deep south of ante-bell um America to the docks of New Jersey in the 1950s. This transition is examined in the following films: Gone with the Wind, The General, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Saving Private Ryan, The Best Years of Our Lives, Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, On the Waterfront, The Day the Earth Stood Still and Dr. Strangelove. Analysis of these films shows that views of what it means to be patriotic have changed over time and have differed for women and men.
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