FEMMES FORMIDABLES
a DIACHRONIC study of the IMAGE of the POWERFUL FEMALE in POPULAR (and maybe other) CULTURES
Saturday, April 28, 2012
YEAR 1956: BATWOMAN
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Though the "Kathy Kane" version of Batwoman doesn't get many props these days, she did accomplish one thing that even Cat...
Monday, April 23, 2012
YEAR 1955: SHEENA
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Though Fiction House, the comics company that published Sheena, closed in 1953, the company's most famous character survived the dem...
Saturday, April 21, 2012
YEAR 1954: JANN OF THE JUNGLE
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1954 is one of the weaker years for femmes formidables, but "Jann of the Jungle" still indicates that there remained life in ...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
YEAR 1953: PRINCESS KNIGHT
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PRINCESS KNIGHT, the English-language rendition of Osamu Tezuka's RIBON NO KISHI ("Knight of the Ribbon"), originally appea...
YEAR 1952: ALTAR KEANE
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1952 is not one of the fifties' best years for femme formidable works, but Fritz Lang's RANCHO NOTORIOUS proves one of the more n...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
YEAR 1951: ANNE OF THE INDIES
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This film is as good a starting-place as any for addressing the relative upsurge in Femmes Formidables films in the decade of the 1950s....
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
YEAR 1950: SAND SAREF
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Sand Saref (whose name is a joke on the typeface "sans serif") first appeared in the January 8, 1950 edition of Will Eisner...
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