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

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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Autor principal: Tasker, Yvonne, 1964-
Formato: Recurso Electrónico livro electrónico
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Colecção:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sumário:
  • 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.