June Mathis's Valentino Scripts: Images of Male "Becoming" After the Great War

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.