Yvonne Tasker
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Yvonne Tasker's Degrees
- PhD Film Studies University of East Anglia
- Masters Film Studies University of East Anglia
- Bachelors Film Studies University of East Anglia
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Yvonne Tasker is a British author and professor of media and communication in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. Tasker was previously professor of film studies and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University of East Anglia.
Yvonne Tasker's Published Works
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- Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (2007) (519)
- Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema (1993) (400)
- Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema (1998) (164)
- Introduction: Feminist Politics and Postfeminist Culture (2007) (118)
- In Focus: Postfeminism and Contemporary Media Studies (2005) (75)
- Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity (2014) (71)
- Neoliberal frames and genres of inequality: Recession-era chick flicks and male-centred corporate melodrama (2013) (36)
- Action and Adventure Cinema (2004) (35)
- Dumb Movies for Dumb People: Masculinity, The Body and the Voice in Contemporary Action Cinema (1993) (35)
- Television Crime Drama and Homeland Security: From Law & Order to "Terror TV" (2012) (28)
- Fists of Fury: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Martial Arts Cinema (1997) (24)
- Introduction: Gender and Recessionary Culture (2014) (23)
- Soldiers' Stories: Women and Military Masculinities in Courage Under Fire (2002) (18)
- Soldiers' Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II (2011) (15)
- Women in Film Noir (2013) (15)
- Fifty contemporary filmmakers (2002) (14)
- reading the L Word: outing contemporary television (2010) (14)
- “Pledge Allegiance”: Gendered Surveillance, Crime Television, and Homeland (2015) (13)
- Enchanted (2007) by Postfeminism: Gender, Irony, and the New Romantic Comedy (2012) (13)
- Having It All: Feminism and the Pleasures of the Popular (1991) (12)
- Vision and Visibility:Women Filmmakers, Contemporary Authorship and Feminist Film Studies (2010) (10)
- Postfeminism and the Archive for the Future (2006) (7)
- "Practically Perfect People: Postfeminism, Masculinity and Male Parenting in Contemporary Cinema" (2008) (7)
- The Hurt Locker: Male Intimacy, Violence and The Iraq War Movie (2010) (7)
- The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film (2015) (7)
- Pussy Galore: Lesbian Images and Lesbian Desire in the Popular Cinema (1994) (6)
- Approaches to the New Hollywood (1996) (6)
- Sensation/investigation: crime television and the action aesthetic (2016) (6)
- Fifty Contemporary Film Directors (2010) (4)
- Vernacular Feminism: Gendered Media Cultures and Historical Perspectives on Postdiscourse (2020) (4)
- Stallone, Ageing and Action Authenticity (2014) (4)
- MARK JANCOVICH DWIGHT MACDONALD AND THE HISTORICAL EPIC (2004) (4)
- Feminist Film Criticism in the 21st Century (2015) (4)
- Women Warriors from Chivalry to Vengeance (2016) (4)
- Whither critical masculinity studies? Notes on inclusive masculinity theory, postfeminism and sexual politics (2018) (3)
- Steve Neale ACTION - ADVENTURE A S HOLLYWOOD GENRE (2004) (3)
- Soldiers' Stories:Military Women in Cinema and Television since WWII (2011) (3)
- LINDA RUTH WILLIAMS READY FOR ACTION G.I. Jane, Demi Moore’s body and the female combat movie (2004) (3)
- Contested masculinities:The action film, the war film, and the western (2016) (2)
- Jill Craigie, Post-war British Film Culture and the British Film Academy (2021) (2)
- "Fantasizing Gender and Race: Women in Contemporary US Action" (2006) (2)
- Military Women in Cinema: War Stories and Future Worlds (2017) (2)
- "Comic Situations/Endless War: MASH and war as entertainment" (2009) (2)
- Book Reviews (2005) (1)
- British Action and Adventure: A National Take on a Global Genre (2014) (1)
- Women Warriors: Gender, Sexuality and Hollywood's Fighting heroines (2012) (1)
- Soldiers' Stories (2021) (1)
- Bodies and Genres in Transition:Girlfight and Real Women have Curves (2012) (1)
- Editors' Introduction: Activism, Agency, and Authorship: Exploring Women's Film History (2016) (1)
- Feminist Crime-Writing and the Politics of Genre (1990) (1)
- Action Television/Crime Television: Sensation and Attraction (2010) (1)
- Kung Fu: re-orienting the television Western (2013) (1)
- Women, sf spectacle and the mise-en-scène of space adventure in the Star Wars franchise (2019) (1)
- The Family in Action (2004) (1)
- X-Men/Action Men (2019) (1)
- Culinary Entertainment, Creative Labor, and the Reterritorialization of White Masculinity (2019) (1)
- An Interview with Terry Wragg on the Work of the Leeds Animation Workshop (2016) (1)
- Introduction (2021) (1)
- CROSS-DRESSING, ASPIRATION AND TRANSFORMATION (2002) (1)
- PERFORMERS AND PRODUCERS (2002) (0)
- Invisible Soldiers: Representing Military Nursing (2011) (0)
- Haunting Crime: the Gothic, the Grotesque and the Paranormal (2011) (0)
- Tonight I Made No Difference (1992) (0)
- Scandalous Stories: Military Women as Victims, Avengers, and Investigators (2011) (0)
- Re-Orienting the television western: Kung Fu (2001) (0)
- FEMALE FRIENDSHIP : Melodrama, romance, feminism (2002) (0)
- Contemporary Women Directors (2007) (0)
- Vernacular Feminism (2022) (0)
- Bigger than Life (originally published in Sight and Sound, May 1999) (2000) (0)
- Conflict over Combat: Training and Testing Military Women (2011) (0)
- ‘NEW HOLLYWOOD’, NEW FILM NOIR AND THE FEMME FATALE (2002) (0)
- Aylish Wood THE COLLAPSE O F REALITY AND ILLUSION I N THE MATRIX (2004) (0)
- 31. The Family in Action (2012) (0)
- Enchanted by Postfeminism (2011) (0)
- Genre in Action: The Impossibility and Value of Genre Analysis (2021) (0)
- 23 FISTS OF FURY: DISCOURSES OF RACE AND MASCULINITY IN THE MARTIAL ARTS CINEMA (2019) (0)
- RACHEL WILLIAMS ‘THEY CALL ME “ACTION WOMAN” ’ The marketing of Mimi Leder as a new concept in the high concept ‘action’ film* (2004) (0)
- Action and Adventure Films (2006) (0)
- Fifty Hollywood Directors (2014) (0)
- Dynamic Erections on the Road to Nowhere? Lead essay for booklet accompanying DVD release of Little Malcolm and his Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974) (2011) (0)
- Enforced Talk: Crime and Confessional in Family Forensics (2006) (0)
- Controversy, Celebration, and Scandal: Military Women in the News Media (2011) (0)
- Mass Appeal: The Formative Age of the Movies, Radio and TV – By Edward D Berkowitz (2012) (0)
- Auxiliary Military Women (2011) (0)
- Women on Top: Comedy, Hierarchy, and the Military Woman (2011) (0)
- Musical Military Women (2011) (0)
- Permissive British Cinema? Essay for booklet accompanying DVD release of Deep End (1970) (2011) (0)
- “ We ’ re on the same fucking side ! ” The Hurt Locker as Iraq war movie (2014) (0)
- Aging and Action Authenticity (2010) (0)
- Meet the Dead- Live!: Paranormal Programming (2006) (0)
- TICO ROMAO GUNS AND GAS Investigating the 1970s car chase film (2004) (0)
- ACTING FUNNY : Comedy and authority (2002) (0)
- Katherine J. Lehman. Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture. (2012) (0)
- Military Women and Service Comedy: M*A*S*H and Private Benjamin (2011) (0)
- 8. JOURNALISM (2008) (0)
- Suarez, Marta (2020) Motherhood, Domesticity and Nurture in the Post- apocalyptic World: Negotiating Femininity in The Walking Dead. In: Women who Kill. Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era (2021) (0)
- Violence, Duty and Choice: the Military Woman in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (2007) (0)
- Book review: Masculinity and Film Performance: Male Angst in Contemporary American Cinema (2013) (0)
- Review : Gendering the Recession : Media and Culture in the Age of Austerity (2015) (0)
- BOOKS RECEIVED (2008) (0)
- British action and adventure cinema: a national take on a global genre (2014) (0)
- Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood by Philip Green (1998) (0)
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