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  • Michael's Tear

    A heart-rending memoir of courage, cancer, and a life-saving heart transplant

    by Yvonne Tasker ...
    What would you do if you were forced to choose between fear and faith, between medical certainty and a mother's unshakable intuition?Michael's Tear is a deeply moving memoir that chronicles one mother's extraordinary journey through love, loss, hope, and spiritual awakening. When Yvonne Tasker's young son Michael is diagnosed with a life threatening cancer, her world fractures in an instant. Faced ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Jill Craigie

    Film and Feminism in Postwar Britain

    by Yvonne Tasker, Sadie Wearing ...
    The career and craft of a woman filmmaker in a male-dominated industryFrom the mid-1940s to the late 1950s, Jill Craigie wrote, produced, and directed the innovative films that stood at the center of her diverse career in British cinema, radio, television, and print journalism. Yvonne Tasker and Sadie Wearing analyze Craigie’s oeuvre while delving into the filmmaker’s use of the medium as the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Silence of the Lambs

    by Yvonne Tasker ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    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 central characters are now iconic. Jodie Foster is Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee investigating 'Buffalo Bill', a serial killer who flays his victims. Anthony Hopkins plays Hannibal Lecter, a serial ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Silence of the Lambs

    by Yvonne Tasker ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    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 crime, and a fascinating intervention in the sexual politics of genre. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Working Girls

    Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema

    by Yvonne Tasker ...
    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 Hollywood cinema has responded to feminism and contemporary sexual identities.Whether analysing the rise of films centred around female friendships, or the entrance of pop stars such as Whitney Houston and ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Soldiers' Stories

    Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II

    by Yvonne Tasker ...
    From Skirts Ahoy! to M*A*S*H, Private Benjamin, G.I. Jane, and JAG, films and television shows have grappled with the notion that military women are contradictory figures, unable to be both effective soldiers and appropriately feminine. In Soldiers’ Stories, Yvonne Tasker traces this perceived paradox across genres including musicals, screwball comedies, and action thrillers. She explains how, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Spectacular Bodies

    Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema

    by Yvonne Tasker ...
    Series series Comedia
    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 criticism.Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as `obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, arguing that these controversial films should be ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film

    by Yvonne Tasker ...
    Series series New Approaches to Film Genre
    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.Draws on a wide range of examples, spanning the silent spectacles of early cinema to the iconic superheroes of 21st-century action filmsFeatures case studies revealing the genre’s diverse roots – from ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Action Cinema Since 2000

    Edited by Professor Emerita Chris Holmlund, Professor Lisa Purse, Yvonne Tasker ...
    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 century.Contributors examine a broad range of content, from blockbusters to smaller independent films, originating from China, Korea, India, France, the USA, and Mexico. Ranging from JSA: Joint Security Area ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Gendering the Recession

    Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity

    Edited by Diane Negra, Yvonne Tasker ...
    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 masculinity, coping women, and postfeminist self-renewal. Interpreting media forms as diverse as reality television, financial journalism, novels, lifestyle blogs, popular cinema, and advertising, the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Action and Adventure Cinema

    Edited by Yvonne Tasker ...
    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 one of the leading commercial genres of the New Hollywood cinema, generating extensive debate in the process.Contributors consider how action might best be defined, how it has developed historically, ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Fifty Hollywood Directors

    Edited by Suzanne Leonard, Yvonne Tasker ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    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 the historical, cultural and technological contexts in which each director was working, this book traces the formative period in commercial cinema when directors went from pioneers to industry ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD