Prof Yvonne Tasker

Professor of Film & Television Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Job Title	Contact	Location
Professor of Film & Television Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities	Y dot Tasker at uea dot ac dot uk Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2799	Registry And Council House 3.20

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Biography

Yvonne Tasker is Professor of Film Studies, Dean of Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Her research is broadly concerned with the politics of popular culture. In current and recent work Yvonne has explored these issues in relation to popular constructions of “postfeminism”; gender and military culture on screen; action and adventure narratives; crime television. She is currently working with Professor Diane Negra on a new book of essays, 'Gendering the Recession'.

Key Research Interests

Research is broadly concerned with the politics of popular culture, gender, race and sexuality in film and television, postfeminist media culture, security, trauma and loss in crime television, military women in film and television since World War II.

Past Research Projects and Grants

Project Title	Start Date	End Date	Funding Body	Project Members
East of England Digital Film Archive: Audience Development Plan	1/9/2006	2/8/2007	Heritage Lottery Fund	Richard Taylor, Yvonne Tasker
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference	1/3/2004	31/3/2004	British Academy	N/A
Soldiers' stories: military women in the cinema since WW2	1/1/2004	30/6/2004	Arts and Humanities Research Council	N/A
Soldiers' stories: military women inthe cinema since WW2	1/9/2003	31/12/2003	Arts and Humanities Research Council	N/A

Teaching Interests

Undergraduate teaching:

Key Issues in Film Studies

Gender and Genre in Contemporary Cinema

Crime and Investigation in Contemporary US Television

MA teaching:

Gender and Genre in Contemporary Cinema

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Number of items: 40.

Article

Tasker, Yvonne (2011) Haunting Crime: the Gothic, the Grotesque and the Paranormal. Flow, 13 (7).

Tasker, Yvonne (2010) Action Television/Crime Television: Sensation and Attraction. Flow, 13 (2).

Tasker, Yvonne and Atakav, Eylem (2010) The Hurt Locker: Male intimacy, violence and the Iraq war movie. Sine, 1 (2).

Tasker, Yvonne and Negra, Diane (2006) Postfeminism and the Archive for the Future. Camera Obscura, 62. pp. 171-176.

Tasker, Yvonne (2006) Enforced Talk: Crime and Confessional in Family Forensics. Flow, 4 (5). 0-00.

Tasker, Yvonne (2006) Meet the Dead- Live!: Paranormal Programming. Flow, 4 (6). 0-00.

Tasker, Yvonne and Diane Negra, (2005) In Focus: Postfeminism and Contemporary Media Studies. Cinema Journal, 44 (2). pp. 107-33.

Tasker, Yvonne (2002) Soldiers Stories: Women and Military Masculinities in Courage Under Fire. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 19 (3). pp. 209-222.

Tasker, Yvonne and Hill, Val (1992) Tonight I Made No Difference. Over Here, 10 (2).

Book Section

Tasker, Yvonne (2012) Bordies and genres in transition: Girlfight and Real Women Have Curves. In: Genre and Gender: Cross-Currents in Postwar Cinema. University of Illinois Press.

Tasker, Yvonne (2011) Enchanted by Postfeminism. In: Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema. Routledge.

Tasker, Yvonne (2010) "Vision and Visibility: Women Filmmakers, Contemporary Authorship and Feminist Film Studies". In: Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History. Wayne State University Press.

Tasker, Yvonne (2009) "Comic Situations/Endless War: MASH and war as entertainment". In: War isn't Hell, It's Entertainment. McFarland, pp. 132-49. ISBN 9780786435586

Tasker, Yvonne (2008) "Practically Perfect People: Postfeminism, Masculinity and Male Parenting in Contemporary Cinema". In: A Family Affair. Wallflower Press, pp. 175-188. ISBN 9781905674558

Tasker, Yvonne (2007) "Violence, Duty and Choice: the Military Woman in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema". In: Women Willing to Fight: The Fighting Woman in Film. Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 78-94. ISBN 9781847181428

Tasker, Yvonne (2007) "Contemporary Women Directors". In: The Cinema Book (3rd Edition). BFI, pp. 68-74. ISBN 9781844571932

Tasker, Yvonne (2006) "Fantasizing Gender and Race: Women in Contemporary US Action". In: Contemporary American Cinema. Open University Press, pp. 410-428. ISBN 0335218326

Tasker, Yvonne (2006) "Action and Adventure Films". In: Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film. Schirmer G Books, 0-00. ISBN 0028657918

Tasker, Yvonne (2004) The Family in Action. In: Action and Adventure Cinema. Routledge, London, pp. 252-266.

Tasker, Yvonne (2003) Action. In: Handbook of Popular Culture/Handbuch Populare Kultur. Metzler, Germany.

Tasker, Yvonne (2001) Re-Orienting the television western: Kung Fu. In: TV Action Series. Routledge, London, pp. 115-126.

Tasker, Yvonne (2000) Bigger than Life (originally published in Sight and Sound, May 1999). In: Action/Spectacle: A Sight and Sound Reader. British Film Institute, London, pp. 195-200.

Tasker, Yvonne (1997) Fists of Fury: Discourses of Race and MAsculinity in the Martial Arts Cinema. In: Race and the Subject of Masculinities. Duke University Press, Durham, pp. 315-336.

Tasker, Yvonne (1996) Approaches to the New Hollywood. In: Cultural Studies and Communication. Edward Arnold, London, pp. 213-228.

Tasker, Yvonne (1994) Pussy Galore: Lesbian Images and Lesbian Desire in the Popular Cinema. In: The Good, The Bad and the Gorgeous: popular culture's romance with lesbianism. Pandora, London, pp. 172-183.

Tasker, Yvonne (1993) Criminelles: Thelma et Louise et autres delinquantes. In: 20 ans de theories feministes sue le cinema. Cinema Action Editions du Cent, Paris, pp. 92-95.

Tasker, Yvonne (1993) Dumb Movies for Dumb People: Masculinity, The Body and the Voice in Contemporary Action Cinema. In: Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema. Routledge, London, pp. 230-244.

Tasker, Yvonne (1991) Having It All: Feminism and the Pleasures of the Popular. In: Off-Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies. Routledge, London, pp. 85-96.

Book

Tasker, Yvonne (2011) Soldiers' Stories: Military Women in Cinema and television since WWII. Duke University Press.

Tasker, Yvonne (2010) Fifty Contemporary Film Directors. Routledge.

Negra, Diane and Tasker, Yvonne (2007) Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture. Duke University Press, p. 344. ISBN 978-0822340324

Tasker, Yvonne (2004) Action and Adventure Cinema. Routledge, p. 414. ISBN 0415235073

Tasker, Yvonne (2002) The Silence of the Lambs. British Film Institute, p. 95. ISBN 0851708714

Tasker, Yvonne (2002) Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers. Routledge, p. 464. ISBN 0415189748

Tasker, Yvonne (1998) Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema. Routledge.

Tasker, Yvonne (1993) Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Crime and the Action Cinema. Routledge.

Tasker, Yvonne (1990) Feminist Crime-Writing and the Politics of Genre. Culture Matters, 4 . Perpetuity Press (originally published by School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University), Leicester.