FEMMES FORMIDABLES

a DIACHRONIC study of the IMAGE of the POWERFUL FEMALE in POPULAR (and maybe other) CULTURES

Friday, May 11, 2012

YEAR 1962: CATHY GALE

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Cathy Gale (played by Honor Blackman for two seasons of Great Britain's THE AVENGERS from1961 to 1969) was far from the first heroi...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

YEAR 1961: THE INVISIBLE GIRL

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I suppose I might be fairly accused of unoriginality in using here the same illustration I used in an earlier post, but the scene capture...
Wednesday, May 9, 2012

YEAR 1960: PRINCESS ASA

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I've commented elsewhere that not until the 1950s did American cinema begin to spawn a fair number of  femmes formidables, and the sa...
Monday, May 7, 2012

YEAR 1959: SUPERGIRL

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Though Lois Lane was the premiere feminine influence on the Superman mythology, a case could be made that his super-cousin was number two...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

YEAR 1958: THE FIFTY-FOOT WOMAN

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In terms of the title (though not so much the story), ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT WOMAN is one of the best-known of  the female-oriented ...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

YEAR 1957: LEONORA BRANDT

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For 1957 here's a rewriting of CAT PEOPLE : CAT GIRL, written by the same scripter who wrote THE SHE CREATURE the previous year. Le...
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...
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