Article Title
"If You Have No Men, You Have No War!”: A Critical Overview of Edgar Selwyn's Men Must Fight (1933)
Abstract
ABSTRACT: Edgar Selwyn’s Men Must Fight (1933) is an obscure yet culturally relevant science fiction drama. An atypical film from its era, the movie has an unusual subject for a Classical Hollywood film- gender socialization. The film didactically argues that wars are inevitable because men are inherently violent, and that, conversely, world peace world occur if women were in power, a possibility that appears to be regrettably impossible. It is also remarkably prescient in predicting that World War II would begin in 1940, only one year off from the German invasion of Poland. This paper combines a close content analysis of the movie, placing it within the socio-cultural context of 1930s feminism and post- All Quiet on the Western Front World War I cinema.
Recommended Citation
Copping, Ryan R.
(2014)
""If You Have No Men, You Have No War!”: A Critical Overview of Edgar Selwyn's Men Must Fight (1933),"
Cinesthesia: Vol. 4
:
Iss.
1
, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cine/vol4/iss1/3