FEMMES FORMIDABLES
a DIACHRONIC study of the IMAGE of the POWERFUL FEMALE in POPULAR (and maybe other) CULTURES
Monday, September 2, 2013
YEAR 1941: MISS AMERICA (I)
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One of two Goklen Age heroines named "Miss America," the first one appeared only the first seven issues of Quality's MILIT...
YEAR 1941: SILK SATIN
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The Black Queen might have been the Spirit's first female foe, but arguably Silk Satin was the best, with the possible exception of...
YEAR 1941: NYOKA THE JUNGLE GIRL
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The early 1940s saw a very short-lived smattering of female-centric adventure-serials, and the only one that enjoyed a second iteration-...
YEAR 1940: THE BLACK QUEEN
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The Black Queen, the first femme fatale in Will Eisner's celebrated SPIRIT comic, changes her modus operandi in her three appearance...
YEAR 1940: THE DRAGON LADY
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Not counting the character's appearances in a 1937-43 film serial, where her voice was contributed by Agnes "Bewitched" Moor...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
YEAR 1940: INDIRA THE COBRA QUEEN
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I could write about a number of reasonably well known characters for 1940, but for once I'll focus on a character almost no one know...
Sunday, August 4, 2013
YEAR 1939: THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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Though the MGM version of Hollywood's most famous evil witch would have been impossible without the L. Frank Baum model, Baum doesn...
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