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Soldiers' Stories : Military Women in Cinema and Television Since World War II
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tasker, Yvonne, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women soldiers in motion pictures.
- Women soldiers on television.
- Women and the military.
- War films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A comprehensive analysis of the changing representations of military women in American and British movies and TV programs from the Second World War to the present.
- Contents:
- 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; 4. Women on Top: Comedy, Hierarchy, and the Military Woman; 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
- NotesBibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Creative Commons Licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/arr/4.0/legalcode cc
- ISBN:
- 9786613252005
- 9781283252003
- 1283252007
- 9780822393351
- 0822393352
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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