Making an American Citizen (1912)

15m
Running Time

October 30, 1912
Release Date

Making an American Citizen (1912)

15m
Running Time

October 30, 1912
Release Date

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Plot.

A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.

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Release Date
October 30, 1912

Status
Released

Running Time
15m

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woman director

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Making an American Citizen is a 1912 silent comedy short film by the pioneering French woman filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché, produced at Solax Studios. Originally advertised as "educational drama" or "educational subject," it grapples with the theme of immigration, assimilation, and of becoming a "good American." The film carries an explicit feminist message: the lopsided power dynamics in an immigrant couple becomes increasingly equalized, as the couple spends more time in America. The wife learns to stand up to her husband's abuses, while the husband is repeatedly coerced by other American citizens into treating his wife as his equal, until he is able to internalize the ethos of the Progressive Era. The film works to allay anxieties over Eastern European immigrant men bringing "Old World" patriarchal values and practices to the "New World."

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