Yvonne Tasker

Yvonne Tasker (born 1964) is an English scholar in the field of film studies, gender and the media. She co-authored Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture which has become a foundational text of postfeminism and popular culture. She has lectured at the University of East Anglia and the University of Leeds.

Academic career

Tasker completed her PhD in Film Studies at the University of Warwick.

Tasker was previously professor of film studies and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University of East Anglia. She is currently professor of media and communication in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds.

Writing

Tasker is a scholar in the field of film studies, gender and the media, and the politics of popular culture. She is the author of a number of books which have made a contribution to the field of film studies including Spectacular Bodies, Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema, Action and Adventure Cinema, Soldiers' Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television Since World War II, and Gendering the Recession: Media Culture in an Age of Austerity. She has contributed to the book Femme Fatalities: Representations of Strong Women in the Media.

Tasker also co-wrote, with Diane Negra, professor of film and television studies at the University of East Anglia, Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2007), which has become a foundational text of post feminism and popular culture.

Her current research includes the Arts and Humanities Research Council–funded project Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer, which explores the career of British documentary maker Jill Craigie. The project is in partnership with Lizzie Thynne (University of Sussex) and Sadie Wearing (London School of Economics) and will create an experimental film biography of Craigie and a co-authored book.

References

  1. ↑ Tasker, Yvonne (April 1995). Spectacular bodies: gender, genre and the action cinema. University of Warwick Publications Service & WRAP (phd). Retrieved 23 May 2019.
  2. ↑ "Meet the Committee". UEA Student and Staff Information Portal. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
  3. ↑ "Yvonne Tasker appointed Professor of Media and Communication". Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures, University of Leeds. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
  4. 1 2 Brown, Jeffrey A. (2004), "Gender, Sexuality, and Toughness: The Bad Girls of Action Film and Comic Books", in Inness, Sherrie A. (ed.), Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture, New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 47–74, doi:10.1057/9781403981240_3, ISBN 978-1-4039-8124-0, retrieved 24 April 2025
  5. ↑ Bell-Metereau, Rebecca (28 November 2007). "Review: Action and Adventure Cinema, edited by Yvonne Tasker. London: Routledge, 2004". Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 25 (1): 72–76. doi:10.1080/10509200500541181. ISSN 1050-9208.
  6. ↑ "Into The Wild. Dir. Sean Penn. Paramount Vantage. 2007. – ZooScope". 14 January 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  7. ↑ Huebner, Andrew J. (October 2012) Review: Yvonne Tasker. Soldiers' Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television Since World War II. The American Historical Review 117:4. p. 1253.
  8. ↑ Konzett, Delia (1 May 2013). "A Review of 'Soldiers' Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television Since World War II': by Yvonne Tasker. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011". Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 30 (3): 283–287. doi:10.1080/10509208.2011.646626. ISSN 1050-9208.
  9. ↑ Bramall, Rebecca (1 February 2015). "Review: gendering the recession: media and culture in an age of austerity". Feminist Review. 109 (1): e4–e6. doi:10.1057/fr.2014.57. ISSN 1466-4380.
  10. ↑ Gatta, Mary (1 August 2015). "Book Review: Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in the Age of Austerity by Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker". Gender & Society. 29 (4): 589–590. doi:10.1177/0891243214546948. ISSN 0891-2432.
  11. ↑ Rowley, Jane (1 April 2008). "Femme Fatalities: Representations of Strong Women in the Media". Feminist Review. 88 (1): 179–181. doi:10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400394. ISSN 1466-4380.
  12. ↑ Hollowell, Clare (1 April 2010). "Book review: Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra, eds, Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture. London: Duke University Press, 2007. 344 pp. (incl. index). ISBN 978—0—9223—4032—4, £14.99 (pbk)". Feminist Theory. 11 (1): 108–109. doi:10.1177/14647001100110010103. ISSN 1464-7001.
  13. ↑ "Media Representations of Domestic Violence". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  14. ↑ "Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer". UK Research and Innovation. Retrieved 23 May 2019.