Tasker & Steenberg analyse Bones (Fox) and Castle (ABC) to consider the parameters of female representation in middlebrow crime TV.
Yvonne Tasker
Yvonne Tasker is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the author and editor of many books exploring gender and popular culture including Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity (2014), Soldiers’ Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television since WWII (2011), Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture, (2007), Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema (1998), and Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema (1993). Her work on crime television has appeared in Cinema Journal and the New Review of Film and Television Studies.
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