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Manly Arts: Masculinity And Nation In Early American Cinema,Used
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In this innovative analysis of the interconnections between nation and aesthetics in the United States during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, David A. Gerstner reveals the crucial role of early cinema in consolidating a masculine ideal under American capitalism. Gerstner describes how cinema came to be considered the art form of the New World and how its experimental qualities infused other artistic traditions (many associated with Europepainting, literature, and even photography) with new life: brash, virile, American life. He argues that early filmmakers were as concerned with establishing cinemas standing in relation to other art forms as they were with storytelling. Focusing on the formal dimensions of earlytwentiethcentury films, he describes how filmmakers drew on European and American theater, literature, and painting to forge a national aesthetic that equated democracy with masculinity.Gerstner provides indepth readings of several early American films, illuminating their connections to a wide range of artistic traditions and cultural developments, including dance, poetry, cubism, realism, romanticism, and urbanization. He shows how J. Stuart Blackton and Theodore Roosevelt developed The Battle Cry of Peace (1915) to disclose cinemas nationalist possibilities during the era of the new twentiethcentury urban frontier; how Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler positioned a national avantgarde through the fusion of American Cubism and industrialization in their film, Manhatta (1921); and how Oscar Micheaux drew on slave narratives and other African American artistic traditions as he grappled with the ideological terms of African American and white American manhood in his movie Within Our Gates (1920). Turning to Vincente Minnellis Cabin in the Sky (1943), Gerstner points to the emergence of an aesthetic of cultural excess that brought together white and African American cultural producersmany of them queerand troubled the equation of national arts with masculinity.
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