| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David A. Gerstner. Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 316. Cloth $79.95, paper $22.95.

Cinema may not be an American invention (the Lumière brothers got there first), but Hollywood has made the movies its own, drawing together the national obsessions, ambitions, and ideals that have kept a people at once in the dark and illuminated. David A. Gerstner focuses on the history (and prehistory) of cinema to reveal it as a struggle for an art that would be distinctively American, which has generally meant (so he argues) an art native-born and manly. In this book Gerstner traces the interrelated development of the concepts of "American art" and "manliness" as they intersected over the course of a century, defining a national aesthetic.

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