Yvonne Tasker
Yvonne Tasker (born 1964) is an English scholar in the field of film studies, gender and the media. She co-authored Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture which has become a foundational text of post feminism and popular culture. She has lectured at the University of East Anglia and the University of Leeds.
Academic career
[edit]Tasker completed her PhD in Film Studies at the University of Warwick.[1]
Tasker was previously professor of film studies and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University of East Anglia.[2] She is currently professor of media and communication in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds.[3]
Writing
[edit]Tasker is a scholar in the field of film studies, gender and the media, and the politics of popular culture. She is the author of a number of books which have made a contribution to the field of film studies including Spectacular Bodies,[4] Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema,[4] Action and Adventure Cinema,[5][6] Soldiers' Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II,[7][8] and Gendering the Recession: Media Culture in an Age of Austerity.[9][10] She has contributed to the book Femme fatalities: representations of strong women in the media.[11]
Tasker also co-wrote, with Diane Negra, professor of film and television studies at the University of East Anglia, Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2007), which has become a foundational text of post feminism and popular culture.[12]
Her current research includes the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer which explores the career of British documentary maker Jill Craigie. The project is in partnership with Lizzie Thynne (University of Sussex) and Sadie Wearing (London School of Economics)[13] and will create an experimental film biography of Craigie and a co-authored book.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ Tasker, Yvonne (April 1995). Spectacular bodies: gender, genre and the action cinema. University of Warwick Publications Service & WRAP (phd). Retrieved 23 May 2019.
- ^ "Meet the Committee". UEA Student and Staff Information Portal. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
- ^ "Yvonne Tasker appointed Professor of Media and Communication". Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures, University of Leeds. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
- ^ a b Brown, Jeffrey A. (2004), Inness, Sherrie A. (ed.), "Gender, Sexuality, and Toughness: The Bad Girls of Action Film and Comic Books", Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture, New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 47–74, doi:10.1057/9781403981240_3, ISBN 978-1-4039-8124-0, retrieved 24 April 2025
- ^ Bell-Metereau, Rebecca (28 November 2007). "Review: Action and Adventure Cinema, edited by Yvonne Tasker. London: Routledge, 2004". Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 25 (1): 72–76. doi:10.1080/10509200500541181. ISSN 1050-9208.
- ^ "Into The Wild. Dir. Sean Penn. Paramount Vantage. 2007. – ZooScope". 14 January 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
- ^ Huebner, Andrew J. (October 2012) Review: Yvonne Tasker. Soldiers' Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II., The American Historical Review 117:4. p. 1253.
- ^ Konzett, Delia (1 May 2013). "A Review of "Soldiers' Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television Since World War II": by Yvonne Tasker. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011". Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 30 (3): 283–287. doi:10.1080/10509208.2011.646626. ISSN 1050-9208.
- ^ Bramall, Rebecca (1 February 2015). "Review: gendering the recession: media and culture in an age of austerity". Feminist Review. 109 (1): e4 – e6. doi:10.1057/fr.2014.57. ISSN 1466-4380.
- ^ Gatta, Mary (1 August 2015). "Book Review: Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in the Age of Austerity by Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker". Gender & Society. 29 (4): 589–590. doi:10.1177/0891243214546948. ISSN 0891-2432.
- ^ Rowley, Jane (1 April 2008). "Femme fatalities: representations of strong women in the media". Feminist Review. 88 (1): 179–181. doi:10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400394. ISSN 1466-4380.
- ^ Hollowell, Clare (1 April 2010). "Book review: Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra, eds, Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture. London: Duke University Press, 2007. 344 pp. (incl. index). ISBN 978—0—9223—4032—4, £14.99 (pbk)". Feminist Theory. 11 (1): 108–109. doi:10.1177/14647001100110010103. ISSN 1464-7001.
- ^ "Media Representations of Domestic Violence". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
- ^ "Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer". UK Research and Innovation. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
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- 1964 births
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- Alumni of the University of Warwick
- British university and college faculty deans
- Academics of the University of East Anglia
- Academics of the University of Leeds
- 21st-century British women writers
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- 20th-century British women writers
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