Soldiers' Stories : Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II (Record no. 55224)
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| control field | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26531 |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9780822393351 |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9780822393351 |
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| Standard number or code | 10.1215/9780822393351 |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | English |
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| Authentication code | dc |
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| Personal name | Tasker, Yvonne |
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| Title | Soldiers' Stories : Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Durham, NC |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Duke University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 20110721 |
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| Terms governing access | Open Access |
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| Summary, etc. | 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 ... |
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| Terms governing use and reproduction | Creative Commons |
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| Language note | English |
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| Uncontrolled term | Media & Communications |
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| Uncontrolled term | Femininity |
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| Uncontrolled term | Masculinity |
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| Uncontrolled term | Military |
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| Uncontrolled term | Nursing |
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| Uncontrolled term | United States |
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| Uncontrolled term | Women in the military |
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| Uncontrolled term | World War II |
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| Host name | www.oapen.org |
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