Yvonne Tasker
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Yvonne Tasker is Professor of Media and Communication in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds.[1] She is a prominent scholar in the field of film studies, and gender and the media. Tasker is the author of a number of books which have made a significant contribution to the field of film studies including Spectacular Bodies, [2] Working Girls [3] and The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film.[4] Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as `obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, and analyses the homoeroticism surrounding the muscleman hero, the symbolic centrality of blackness within the crime narrative, and the changing status of women within the genre. Tasker completed her PhD in Film Studies at the University of Warwick.[5] Tasker was previously Professor of Film Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University of East Anglia.[6] Her current research includes the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer that explores the career of documentary maker Jill Craigie. The project works in partnership with Lizzie Thynne (University of Sussex) and Dr Sadie Wearing (London School of Economics) and will create an experimental film biography of Craigie and a co-authored book. [7][8]
References
- ^ "Yvonne Tasker appointed Professor of Media and Communication". Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures, University of Leeds. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
- ^ Tasker, Yvonne (1993). Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema. Routledge. p. 216. ISBN 0415092248.
- ^ Tasker, Yvonne (1998). Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema. Routledge. p. 244. ISBN 0415140056.
- ^ Tasker, Yvonne (2015). The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film (New Approaches to Film Genre). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0470659246.
- ^ Yvonne, Tasker. "Spectacular bodies: gender, genre and the action cinema". University of Warwick Publications Service & WRAP. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
- ^ "Meet the Committee". UEA Student and Staff Information Portal. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
- ^ "Jill Craigie Film Pioneer". Retrieved 23 May 2019.
- ^ "Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer". UK Research and Innovation. Retrieved 23 May 2019.