Yvonne Tasker is Professor of Film and Media at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema (1993) and Soldiers” Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television Since WWII (2011), and editor of Action and Adventure Cinema (2004).
24 Ebooks by Yvonne Tasker
Yvonne Tasker: The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film
The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film presents a
comprehensive overview and analysis of the history, myriad themes,
and critical approaches to the action and adventure genre in
American cinema. …
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English
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€26.99
Yvonne Tasker: The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film
The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film presents a
comprehensive overview and analysis of the history, myriad themes,
and critical approaches to the action and adventure genre in
American cinema. …
PDF
English
DRM
€26.99
Yvonne Tasker: Working Girls
Working Girls investigates the thematic concerns of contemporary Hollywood cinema, and its ambivalent articulation of women as both active, and defined by sexual performance, asking whether new …
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English
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€23.97
Yvonne Tasker: Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers
Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers examines the work of some of today’s most popular, original and influential cinematic voices. Each entry offers both an overview and critique of its subject’s career and …
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English
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€18.73
Yvonne Tasker: Action and Adventure Cinema
This exciting collection addresses action and adventure from the silent to the contemporary period exploring diverse questions of aesthetics, industry and ideology. Action has established itself as …
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English
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€24.13
Yvonne Tasker: Fifty Contemporary Film Directors
This book provides an accessible overview of each director’s contribution to cinema, incorporating a discussion of their career, major works and …
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English
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€81.47
Yvonne Tasker: Action and Adventure Cinema
This exciting collection addresses action and adventure from the silent to the contemporary period exploring diverse questions of aesthetics, industry and ideology. Action has established itself as …
EPUB
English
DRM
€44.95
Yvonne Tasker: Action and Adventure Cinema
This exciting collection addresses action and adventure from the silent to the contemporary period exploring diverse questions of aesthetics, industry and ideology. Action has established itself as …
PDF
English
DRM
€45.10
Yvonne Tasker: Working Girls
Working Girls investigates the thematic concerns of contemporary Hollywood cinema, and its ambivalent articulation of women as both active, and defined by sexual performance, asking whether new …
EPUB
English
DRM
€46.98
Yvonne Tasker: Working Girls
Working Girls investigates the thematic concerns of contemporary Hollywood cinema, and its ambivalent articulation of women as both active, and defined by sexual performance, asking whether new …
PDF
English
DRM
€47.04
Yvonne Tasker: Spectacular Bodies
While films such as
Rambo, Thelma and Louise and
Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film …
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€46.86
Yvonne Tasker: Spectacular Bodies
While films such as
Rambo, Thelma and Louise and
Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film …
PDF
DRM
€46.90
Yvonne Tasker: Fifty Contemporary Film Directors
Fifty Contemporary Film Directors examines the work of some of today’s most popular and influential cinematic figures. It provides an accessible overview of each director’s contribution to cinema, …
EPUB
English
DRM
€31.50
Yvonne Tasker: Fifty Contemporary Film Directors
Fifty Contemporary Film Directors examines the work of some of today’s most popular and influential cinematic figures. It provides an accessible overview of each director’s contribution to cinema, …
PDF
English
DRM
€31.32
Suzanne Leonard & Yvonne Tasker: Fifty Hollywood Directors
Fifty Hollywood Directors introduces the most important, iconic and influential filmmakers who worked in Hollywood between the end of the silent period and the birth of the blockbuster. By exploring …
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English
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€39.87
Suzanne Leonard & Yvonne Tasker: Fifty Hollywood Directors
Fifty Hollywood Directors introduces the most important, iconic and influential filmmakers who worked in Hollywood between the end of the silent period and the birth of the blockbuster. By exploring …
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English
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€39.96
Yvonne Tasker: The Silence of the Lambs
In this study Yvonne Tasker explores the way the film weaves together gothic, horror and thriller conventions to generate both a distinctive variation on the cinematic portrayal of insanity and …
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€13.72
Yvonne Tasker: The Silence of the Lambs
In this study Yvonne Tasker explores the way the film weaves together gothic, horror and thriller conventions to generate both a distinctive variation on the cinematic portrayal of insanity and …
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€13.64
Yvonne Tasker: Silence of the Lambs
Released in 1990, The Silence of the Lambs is one of the defining films of late twentieth century American cinema. Adapted from the Thomas Harris novel and directed by the late Jonathan Demme, its …
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English
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€14.84
Yvonne Tasker: Silence of the Lambs
Released in 1990, The Silence of the Lambs is one of the defining films of late twentieth century American cinema. Adapted from the Thomas Harris novel and directed by the late Jonathan Demme, its …
PDF
English
DRM
€14.84
Chris Holmlund & Lisa Purse: Action Cinema Since 2000
Action Cinema Since 2000 addresses an increasingly lively and evolving field of scholarship, probing the definition and testing the potential of action cinema to reframe the mode for the 21st …
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English
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€28.55
Chris Holmlund & Lisa Purse: Action Cinema Since 2000
Action Cinema Since 2000 addresses an increasingly lively and evolving field of scholarship, probing the definition and testing the potential of action cinema to reframe the mode for the 21st …
PDF
English
DRM
€28.48
Diane Negra & Yvonne Tasker: Gendering the Recession
This timely, necessary collection of essays provides feminist analyses of a recession-era media culture characterized by the reemergence and refashioning of familiar gender tropes, including crisis …
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€36.74
Diane Negra & Yvonne Tasker: Interrogating Postfeminism
This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the …
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English
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€38.01
