Soldiers' Stories : : Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II / / Yvonne Tasker

• Autore: Tasker Yvonne
• Pubblicazione: Durham, NC : , : Duke University Press, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/6581
• Soggetto topico: Performing Arts / Television / History & Criticism; Performing arts
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- A Provocative Presence: Military Women in Visual Culture -- Part one -- 1. Auxiliary Military Women -- 2. Invisible Soldiers: Representing Military Nursing -- Part two -- 3. Musical Military Women -- 5. Military Women and Service Comedy: M*A*S*H and Private Benjamin -- Part three -- 6. Controversy, Celebration, and Scandal: Military Women in the News Media -- 7. Conflict over Combat: Training and Testing Military Women -- 8. Scandalous Stories: Military Women as Victims, Avengers, and Investigators -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Soldiers' Stories
• ISBN: 1-4780-9147-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910831888403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II