Soldiers' Stories: Military Women In Cinema And Television Since World War Ii Yvonne Tasker

• Auteur : Yvonne Tasker
• Editeur : Duke Univ Pr
• Langue : Anglais
• Parution : 01/07/2011
• Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg
• Nombre de pages : 313
• Dimensions : 23.1 x 15.2 x 2.0

Critique / Article
...looks at a wide range of visual images (from both the US and Britain) including films, television shows, advertisements, and recruitment posters...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 make the text...Soldiers' Stories may teach more than some ever expected. Reading Tasker's analyses of these texts could make many rethink what is considered entertaining at the expense of women. Catherine Ramsdell, PopMatters.com Soldiers' Stories is an important, timely, imminently readable--and teachable--cultural history. Yvonne Tasker takes the figure of the woman soldier in US and UK popular film and TV as a cultural flashpoint for examining the history of our collective thinking about war, violence, authority, sexuality, female embodiment, and gender trouble in the military. Sharon Willis, author of High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Film What is so valuable about Yvonne Tasker's investigation of film and TV images of British and American military women is that she doesn't stop at the end of World War II. She keeps us attentive right through the Korean and Vietnam wars. She makes sure we track the ambivalences and confusions that women in militaries provoke--among officials, directors, scriptwriters and audiences--over two generations. I have learned so much from Soldiers' Stories. Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War