| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture. By Robin Blaetz. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. xx, 279 pp. Cloth, $45.00,ISBN 0-8139-2075-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8139-2076-0.)

This book in the series Cultural Frames, Framing Culture, edited by Robert Newman, examines the presence of Joan of Arc in American film and culture from 1911 through the Vietnam War and beyond. The necessary background of the particular appeal to Americans establishes a relationship between the historic Joan and her manifestations in various cultural genres throughout the twentieth century.

Why was there this sustained captivation of a peasant maid? Her brief moment in history—she did not live to be twenty years old—was connected to war and religion, and it may seem to have to little to do with American women in the last century. Robin Blaetz answers with careful examination of the popular medium of foreign and Hollywood film and of the correspondence of issues of American women's roles and war and with analysis of the various reinventions and use of the Joan icon as cultural capital.

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