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

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

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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, the author traces this perceived par...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tasker, Yvonne, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kvinnor på film.
Krigsfilm.
Kvinnliga soldater på tv.
Kvinnliga soldater i filmen.
War films > History and criticism.
Women in motion pictures.
Women and the military.
Women soldiers in mass media.
Film.
Kriegsfilm.
Frau > Motiv
Militär > Motiv
Soldatin
War films.
Films de guerre > Histoire et critique.
Femmes au cinema.
Femmes et armee.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Auxiliary military women
  • Invisible soldiers: representing military nursing
  • Musical military women
  • Women on top: comedy, hierarchy, and the military woman
  • Military women and service comedy: M*A*S*H and Private Benjamin
  • Controversy, celebration, and scandal: military women in the news media
  • Conflict over combat: training and testing military women
  • Scandalous stories: military women as victims, avengers, and investigators.

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