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Soldiers´ Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II

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Description for Soldiers´ Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II Paperback. A comprehensive analysis of the changing representations of military women in American and British movies and TV programs from the Second World War to the present. Num Pages: 328 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; APFA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
From Skirts Ahoy! to M*A*S*H, Private Benjamin, G.I. Jane, and JAG, films and television shows have grappled with the notion that military women are contradictory figures, unable to be both effective soldiers and appropriately feminine. In Soldiers’ Stories, Yvonne Tasker traces this perceived paradox across genres including musicals, screwball comedies, and action thrillers. She explains how, during the Second World War, women were portrayed as auxiliaries, temporary necessities of “total war.” Later, nursing, with its connotations of feminine care, offered a solution to the “gender problem.” From the 1940s through the 1970s, musicals, romances, and comedies exploited the humorous potential ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822348474
SKU
V9780822348474
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Ref
99-1

About Yvonne Tasker
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Soldiers´ Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II
“All the chapters are impeccably researched and meticulously detailed, but it’s Tasker’s attention to small particulars, the kind many casual observers might miss (such as an offhand reference to a beauty parlor or the importance of costumes in ‘transformation narratives’), and the complicated conclusions she draws, even when the films (or television shows) seem superficial on the surface, that really ... Read more

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