By RITA SHERROW World Scene Writer on Mar 5, 2013, at 1:47 PM Updated on 3/05 at 1:55 PM
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Here she comes to save the day. That mean's "Wonder Women!" are on the way.
Public Television's "Independent Lens" film series introduces "Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines" at 9 p.m. April 15 on channel 11 in Tulsa.
This film, from Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Kelcey Edwards, traces the birth, evolution and legacy of the comic book character from the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, according to PBS. FYI: The original character was actually the brainchild of a Harvard-trained pop sychologist named William Moulton Marston.
The film also looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society's anxieties about women’s liberation and goes behind the scenes with TV stars Lynda Carter ("Wonder Woman") and Lindsay Wagner ("The Bionic woman"”), comic writers and artists, and real-life "superheroines" including Gloria Steinem, Kathleen Hanna and others who offer a counterpoint to the male-dominated superhero genre.
"I loved the idea of looking at something as populist as comics to reveal our cultural obsessions, and in particular, how women’s roles have changed over time," said director Guevera-Flanagan.
“The narratives of our most iconic superheroes, told and re-told over decades, boldly outline our shifting values. For some it’s Lara Croft, for others it’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but we all need those iconic heroes that tell us we have the power to slay our dragons and don’t have to wait around to be rescued.”
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