Working girls : gender and sexuality in popular cinema /
Tasker, Yvonne, 1964-
Working girls : gender and sexuality in popular cinema / Yvonne Tasker. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1998. - 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) : illustrations
Filmography: pages 219-222. Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and index.
Cross-dressing, aspiration, and transformation -- Cowgirl tales -- Action women : muscles, mothers, and others -- Investigating women : work, criminality, and sexuality -- 'New Hollywood', new film noir, and the femme fatale -- Female friendship : melodrama, romance, feminism -- Acting funny : comedy and authority -- Music, video, cinema : singers and movie stars -- Performers and producers.
How has the new Hollywood' responded to the new woman'? Working Girls investigates contemporary cinema's ambivalent and complex relationship with gender and sexual dentities in the wake of feminism. Tasker addresses the versions of the working woman offered by contemporary Hollywood: spunky' heroines of action movies such as True Lies and The Long Kiss Goodnight ; female cops and FBI agents, in The Silence of the Lambs, Blue Steel and Copycat, the singer as movie-star, as typified by Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston, and sharp-shooting cowgirls in new Westerns' such as Bad Girls and The Quick and the Dead . She also discusses the increasing prominence of women as producers and directors as well as stars and performers.
English.
0415246253 (electronic bk.) 9780415246255 (electronic bk.) 9780203438152 (electronic bk.) 0203438159 (electronic bk.) (hardcover ; alk. paper) (hardcover ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) 1280199075 9781280199073 9781134826605 (e-book: PDF) 1134826605 9781134826551 (e-book: Mobi) 1134826559 9781134826599 (e-book: ePub) 1134826591
MYILIB_CUp
97038918
Women in motion pictures.
Women in the motion picture industry.
Femmes au cinéma.
Femmes dans l'industrie cinématographique.
PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--Reference.
Women in motion pictures.
Women in the motion picture industry.
Vrouwen.
Sekserol.
Beeldvorming.
Films.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.W6 / T36 1998eb
791.43/652042
Working girls : gender and sexuality in popular cinema / Yvonne Tasker. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1998. - 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) : illustrations
Filmography: pages 219-222. Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and index.
Cross-dressing, aspiration, and transformation -- Cowgirl tales -- Action women : muscles, mothers, and others -- Investigating women : work, criminality, and sexuality -- 'New Hollywood', new film noir, and the femme fatale -- Female friendship : melodrama, romance, feminism -- Acting funny : comedy and authority -- Music, video, cinema : singers and movie stars -- Performers and producers.
How has the new Hollywood' responded to the new woman'? Working Girls investigates contemporary cinema's ambivalent and complex relationship with gender and sexual dentities in the wake of feminism. Tasker addresses the versions of the working woman offered by contemporary Hollywood: spunky' heroines of action movies such as True Lies and The Long Kiss Goodnight ; female cops and FBI agents, in The Silence of the Lambs, Blue Steel and Copycat, the singer as movie-star, as typified by Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston, and sharp-shooting cowgirls in new Westerns' such as Bad Girls and The Quick and the Dead . She also discusses the increasing prominence of women as producers and directors as well as stars and performers.
English.
0415246253 (electronic bk.) 9780415246255 (electronic bk.) 9780203438152 (electronic bk.) 0203438159 (electronic bk.) (hardcover ; alk. paper) (hardcover ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) 1280199075 9781280199073 9781134826605 (e-book: PDF) 1134826605 9781134826551 (e-book: Mobi) 1134826559 9781134826599 (e-book: ePub) 1134826591
MYILIB_CUp
97038918
Women in motion pictures.
Women in the motion picture industry.
Femmes au cinéma.
Femmes dans l'industrie cinématographique.
PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--Reference.
Women in motion pictures.
Women in the motion picture industry.
Vrouwen.
Sekserol.
Beeldvorming.
Films.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.W6 / T36 1998eb
791.43/652042