Yvonne Tasker

Soldiers' Stories

Military Women in Cinema and Television Since World War II

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive feminist analysis of representations of military women in film and television in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, from World War II to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822348351
• ISBN-10: 0822348357
• Artikelnr.: 33169007

Autorenporträt

Yvonne Tasker is Professor of Film Studies in the School of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema and Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema and a co-editor of Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xiii
A Provocative Presence: Military Women in Visual Culture 1
Part One 19
1. Auxiliary Military Women 23
2. Invisible Soldiers: Representing Military Nursing 71
Part Two
3. Musical Military Women 115
4. Women on Top: Comedy, Hierarchy, and the Military Woman 139
5. Military Women and Service Comedy: M*A*S*H and Private Benjamin 173
Part Three 201
6. Controversy, Celebration, and Scandal: Military Women in the News Media
205
7. Conflict over Combat: Training and Testing Military Women 235
8. Scandalous Stories: Military Women as Victims, Avengers, and
Investigators 255
Afterword 277
Notes 281
Bibliography 301
Index 309