Abstract
Clementine Tholas investigates the issue of homosexuality in the silent war films of World War One. Tholas is interested in the way that these films present issues of gender relationships and friendships as well as homosexuality at a moment when the latter was punished by the US army and viewed as a social threat. Using these films to investigate how Hollywood imagined life on the front lines for soldiers, Tholas notes the displays of male emotion, love, friendships, and femininity within. Accordingly, she discovers that these films tend to reassert a patriarchal and misogynistic vision or masculinity and gender roles. At the same time, they portray the various kinds of male and maternal love, virile friendships and physical desire that can reflect, and effect, social transformation.
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