FEMMES FORMIDABLES
a DIACHRONIC study of the IMAGE of the POWERFUL FEMALE in POPULAR (and maybe other) CULTURES
Thursday, June 18, 2015
YEAR 1967: ANGELIQUE
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In April 1967, the failing horror-soap opera DARK SHADOWS introduced the character for which the show would become best known: the tragi...
Saturday, May 30, 2015
YEAR 1966: GOLDEN SWALLOW
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I confess that it's been quite a while since I screened King Hu's influential kung-fu drama COME DRINK WITH ME, and I don't ...
Friday, April 24, 2015
YEAR 1966: POISON IVY
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The appearance of Julie Newmar as Catwoman not only stimulated the character's return to comic books for the first time in ten-plus ...
Friday, February 27, 2015
YEAR 1965: VARLA
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As I said in my review of FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! , Russ Meyer's formidable film about three go-go dancers involved in mu...
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Friday, December 19, 2014
YEAR 1965: HONEY WEST
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While the Honey West novels are just tolerable time-killers, the short-lived 1965-66 teleseries remains a big step forward for shows fea...
Saturday, November 22, 2014
YEAR 1965: WONDER GIRL
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As I noted in my essay on the first Wonder Girl , for some time I regarded the earlier character as one with the character who was essen...
Monday, October 6, 2014
YEAR 1964: THE SCARLET WITCH
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Much like the Wasp and Marvel Girl, the Scarlet Witch received a bad rap, at least for her earliest depictions. Yet the character of ...
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