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Yvonne Tasker is a British author and professor of media and communication in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. [1] Tasker was previously professor of film studies and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University of East Anglia. [2]
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, [3] Working Girls [4] and The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film. [5] Tasker also co-wrote, with Diane Negra, Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2007), a foundational text of postfeminism and popular culture. Tasker completed her PhD in Film Studies at the University of Warwick. [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 Sadie Wearing (London School of Economics) and will create an experimental film biography of Craigie and a co-authored book. [7] [8]
Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media Studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass communication, communication, communication sciences, and communication studies.
Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist is thrust into a series of events that typically involve violence and physical feats.
Girl power is a slogan that encourages and celebrates women's empowerment, independence, confidence and strength. The slogan's invention is credited to the US punk band Bikini Kill, who published a zine called Bikini Kill #2: Girl Power in 1991. It was then popularized in the mainstream by the British girl group Spice Girls in the mid-1990s. According to Rolling Stone magazine, the Spice Girls' usage of "girl power" was one of the defining cultural touchstones that shaped the Millennial generation.
Jill Craigie was a British documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and feminist. She was one of Britain's earliest female documentary makers. Her early films demonstrate Craigie's interest in socialist and feminist politics, but her career as a film-maker has been "somewhat eclipsed" by her marriage to the Labour Party leader Michael Foot (1913–2010), whom she met during the making of her film The Way We Live (1946).
Richard Dyer is an English academic who held a professorship in the Department of Film Studies at King's College London. Specialising in cinema, queer theory, and the relationship between entertainment and representations of race, sexuality, and gender, he was previously a faculty member of the Film Studies Department at the University of Warwick for many years and has held a number of visiting professorships in the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany.
Francesco Casetti is an Italian naturalized US citizen film and television theorist. He is Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies at Yale University. He has been described as "the best analyst of cinematographic enunciation."
Mary Ann Doane is the Class of 1937 Professor of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley and was previously the George Hazard Crooker Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is a pioneer in the study of gender in film.
The portrayal of women warriors in literature and popular culture is a subject of study in history, literary studies, film studies, folklore history, and mythology. The archetypal figure of the woman warrior is an example of a normal thing that happens in some cultures, while also being a counter stereotype, opposing the normal construction of war, violence and aggression as masculine. This convention-defying position makes the female warrior a prominent site of investigation for discourses surrounding female power and gender roles in society.
Ginette Vincendeau is a French-born British-based academic who is a professor of film studies at King's College London.
Screen is an academic journal of film and television studies based at the University of Glasgow and published by Oxford University Press. The editors-in-chief are Tim Bergfelder, Alison Butler, Dimitris Eleftheriotis, Karen Lury, Alastair Phillips, Jackie Stacey, and Sarah Street.
Rosalind Clair Gill is a British sociologist and feminist cultural theorist. She is currently Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City, University of London. Gill is author or editor of ten books, and numerous articles and chapters, and her work has been translated into Chinese, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.
Timothy Shary is an American film scholar, and a leading authority on the representation of youth in movies. He has been a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Clark University, and the University of Oklahoma. He is now a professor at Eastern Florida State College.
E. Ann Kaplan is an American professor, author, and director. She currently teaches English at the Stony Brook State University of New York, and is the founder and director of The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University. She coined the term "“Future-Tense Trauma Cinema” for a select group of films, a sub-set of the Science Fiction film, that focus on human and natural causes of complete social collapse instead of, as in standard Sci-Fi, displacing cultural anxieties into allegories of aliens invading planet Earth from elsewhere."" She is also one of the precursors of the Madonna studies.
Stella Bruzzi, FBA is an Italian-born British scholar of film and media studies and currently Dean of Arts and Humanities at University College London.
Tim Palmer, born in Nottingham, England, is a British film historian currently based at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in the film studies department. He holds a bachelor's degree in film and literature from the University of Warwick, a master's degree in film and television studies from the University of Warwick, and a PhD in communication arts from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Angela Dalle Vacche is a professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her expertise lies in film studies, specifically world cinema, and Italian cinema, with several books and publicized materials on the subject. Vacche focuses on exploring the role of gender in Italian cinema. Her book “Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema” delves into the topic of the Italian diva and the “emancipation and self-discovery” that the role offers to its female audience.
Isolde Standish is an Australian and British Humanities Scholar and Film theorist specialised in the subregion of East Asia. Mostly known for her works on Japanese Cinema, she is currently an Emerita Reader at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, England and teaches Post-War Cinema and the Avant-Garde at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Standish mostly works in Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom. She was awarded numerous prizes and grants for her work including 'the Ouseley Memorial Scholarship', 'the Japan Foundation scholarship', the 'AHRC Research Leave Award' or the 'Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship' in 2014.
Charlotte Brunsdon is a professor of film and television studies at the University of Warwick and researcher. She was one of the principal researchers of the Nationwide Project.
Sarah Street is professor of Film and Foundation Chair of Drama at University of Bristol.
Kathryn Bond Stockton is an American writer and academic. She works at the University of Utah, where she serves as the inaugural Dean of the School for Cultural and Social Transformation and a Distinguished Professor of English. Her primary research areas are " queer theory, theories of race and racialized gender, and twentieth-century literature and film."
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