FEMMES FORMIDABLES
a DIACHRONIC study of the IMAGE of the POWERFUL FEMALE in POPULAR (and maybe other) CULTURES
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
YEAR 1959: MALEFICENT
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1959's SLEEPING BEAUTY may have been the first fantasy-film I saw on the big screen, since I have an intense memory of the end scene...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
YEAR 1959: WONDER GIRL
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There was a time when I tended to disregard the first version of Wonder Girl in favor of the altered version who became a member of DC...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014
YEAR 1957: HONEY WEST
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As of this writing I've only read three of the eleven novels starring Honey West, one of the best-known female detectives of the 20t...
Friday, March 14, 2014
COVERFEMMES #2
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The aforementioned book also overlooks a lot of the significant starring or co-starring femmes of the Silver Age, such as: MERA ELAS...
YEAR 1957: KYRA ZELAS
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I confess that I haven't seen the 1957 SHE-DEVIL in over 20 years, and haven't found even a greymarket source for a copy. Th...
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
COVERFEMMES #1
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This is a new feature I'm adding, one that may supplement the ongoing-- but infrequently updated-- "diachronic study." I...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
YEAR 1956: THE SWAMP WOMEN
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For some reason various sources list this Roger Corman "roughie" as appearing in either 1955 or 1956, but the most reliable so...
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