ISBN: 9780813920757

Representations of Joan of Arc have been used in the United States for the past two hundred years, appearing in advertising, cartoons, popular song, art, criticism, and propaganda. The pr… Mehr…

Representations of Joan of Arc have been used in the United States for the past two hundred years, appearing in advertising, cartoons, popular song, art, criticism, and propaganda. The presence of the fifteenth-century French heroine in the cinema is particularly intriguing in relation to the role of women during wartime. Robin Blaetz argues that a mythic Joan of Arc was used during the First World War to cast a medieval glow over an unpopular war, but that she only appeared after the Second World War to encourage women to abandon their wartime jobs and return to the home.In Visions of the Maid, Blaetz examines three pivotal films—Cecil B. DeMille's 1916 Joan the Woman, Victor Fleming's 1948 Joan of Arc, and Otto Preminger's 1957 Saint Joan—as well as addressing a broad array of popular culture references and every other film about the heroine made or distributed in the United States. Blaetz is particularly concerned with issues of gender and the ways in which Joan of Arc's androgyny, virginity, and sacrificial victimhood were evoked in relation to the evolving roles of women during war throughout the twentieth century. Trade Books>Hardcover>Movies & TV>Film Studies>Film Studies, University of Virginia Press Core >2<

ISBN: 9780813920757

Representations of Joan of Arc have been used in the United States for the past 200 years, appearing in advertising, cartoons, popular song, art, criticism and propaganda. ""Visions of th… Mehr…

Representations of Joan of Arc have been used in the United States for the past 200 years, appearing in advertising, cartoons, popular song, art, criticism and propaganda. ""Visions of the Maid"" examines three pivotal films on the heroine as well as a broad array of popular culture references.; Cultural History, University of Virginia Press<

ISBN: 9780813920757

Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture Visions-of-the-Maid~~Robin-Blaetz Movies & TV>Film Studies>Film Studies Hardcover, University of Virginia Press

2001, ISBN: 9780813920757

Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture, Hardcover, Buch, [PU: University of Virginia Press]