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June Mathis's Valentino Scripts: Images of Male "Becoming" After the Great War
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 50, Number 1, Fall 2010
- pp. 99-120
- 10.1353/cj.2010.a405350
- Article
- Additional Information
In the screenplays she wrote for Rudolph Valentino in 1921-1922, June Mathis redefined masculinity according to a socially useful, sexually open, anti-materialist, nonviolent model, an achievement that deserves recognition because it expands our understanding of how American culture, and especially women, responded to the Great War.