Tasker Soldiers' Stories

Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9335-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tasker, Yvonne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.