Yvonne Tasker

Author of The Silence of the Lambs (BFI Film Classics)

About the Author

Yvonne Tasker is Professor of Film Studies in the School of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in popular Cinema and spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema and a Co-editor of Interrogating show more Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of popular culture, also published by Duke University Press. show less

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The Silence of the Lambs (BFI Film Classics) (2002) 64 copies, 1 review

Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (Console-ing Passions) (2007) 55 copies

Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema (1993) 40 copies

Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema (1998) 37 copies, 1 review

Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers (2002) 30 copies

Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity (2014) 12 copies

Fifty Contemporary Film Directors (Routledge Key Guides) (2010) 11 copies

Soldiers' Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II (2011) 11 copies

The Action and Adventure Cinema (2004) 10 copies

The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film (New Approaches to Film Genre) (2015) 7 copies

O Silêncio dos Inocentes: Entre Cordeiros e Monstros (2024) 4 copies

50 Çagdas Sinemaci (2016) 1 copy

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Occupations: professor

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rsplenda477 144 reviews

The Silence of the Lambs (BFI Modern Classics) by Yvonne Tasker

This is a good exploration into one of the greatest psychological horror films ever made. Tasker provides a good discussion on the major feminist themes, as well as some discussion of serial killers and their mentality. This is definitely a good read for movie lovers.

Mar 30, 2013

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Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema by Yvonne Tasker

"Product Description
An authoritative investigation of Hollywood's portrayal of women. WORKING GIRLS examines Hollywood's ambivalent articulation of women as both active and defined by sexual performance, questioning whether new Hollywood film makers even have grasped, much less responded to, feminism and contemporary sexual identities. "
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Oct 23, 2009German