LEADER 02330nam 22003493a 450 001 996602568903316 005 20230725031839.0 010 $a1-4780-9147-9 035 $a(CKB)4950000000290066 035 $a(ScCtBLL)b7013b08-c329-4998-a4d9-433c88facb48 035 $a(EXLCZ)994950000000290066 100 $a20211214i20112019 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aSoldiers' Stories : $eMilitary Women in Cinema and Television since World War II /$fYvonne Tasker 210 1$aDurham, NC :$cDuke University Press,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (331 p.) 330 $aFrom 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 of the gender role reversal that the military woman was taken to represent. Since the 1970s, female soldiers have appeared most often in thrillers and legal and crime dramas, cast as isolated figures, sometimes victimized and sometimes heroic. Soldiers' Stories is a comprehensive analysis of representations of military women in film and TV since the 1940s. Throughout, Tasker relates female soldiers' provocative presence to contemporaneous political and cultural debates and to the ways that women's labor and bodies are understood and valued. 606 $aPerforming Arts / Television / History & Criticism$2bisacsh 606 $aPerforming arts 615 7$aPerforming Arts / Television / History & Criticism 615 0$aPerforming arts 700 $aTasker$b Yvonne$01725718 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996602568903316 996 $aSoldiers' Stories$94129953 997 $aUNISA