FEMMES FORMIDABLES
a DIACHRONIC study of the IMAGE of the POWERFUL FEMALE in POPULAR (and maybe other) CULTURES
Friday, May 24, 2013
YEAR 2012: QUEEN RAVENNA
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There's not much question that Queen Ravenna of SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN was the standout cinematic villainess for the year of 2...
YEAR 2011: HANNA HELLER
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More interesting for its potential than its execution was the 2011 film HANNA, reviewed here . The character of Hanna Heller, an origi...
YEAR 2010: BLACK WIDOW
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By some reckonings the most outstanding aspect of IRON MAN 2 is not so much the confused plot pitting the titular hero against Mickey Ro...
Thursday, May 23, 2013
YEAR 2009: WONDER WOMAN
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I've done a fuller review of the 2009 direct-to-video WONDER WOMAN movie . For the purposes of this blog, the main significance of...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
YEAR 2008: KAHLAN AMNELL
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It took over ten years, but television finally took advantage of the soap-operatic epic of Terry Goodkind's SWORD OF TRUTH novels, ...
Friday, April 12, 2013
YEAR 2007: SARAH WALKER
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Though Chuck Bartowski was the central character of the NBC comedy-adventure series CHUCK, arguably two of Chuck's support-cast-- hi...
YEAR 2006:THE DOA GIRLS
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The film DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE may not be among the best American-made martial-arts flicks, but its title is certainly the most repetitive ...
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