Tag Archives: Gender Representation

The Wasp Woman: A Makeover Gone Murderous

Posted on March 15, 2013 by ahcadmin

One of my favorite “B” movies from the 1950s is a film called The Wasp Woman, released in 1959. The film is about a woman named Janice Starlin who is the CEO of a cosmetics company. As she is quickly … Continue reading →

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King Kong’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’

Posted on February 21, 2013 by ahcadmin

In the Forrest J. Ackerman collection, one can find a variety of well-known artifacts of the film era, including work from before World War II (the oldest artifact in the collection is from 1890, a literary review that has an … Continue reading →

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Forbidden Planet: An Exceptional Specimen of ‘B Movie’ Ingenuity

Posted on January 24, 2013 by ahcadmin

I recently had the pleasure of watching Forbidden Planet, a science-fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox and released in 1956. A young Leslie Nielsen plays a space captain (Commander J.J. Adams) who is directed to a planet to hopefully … Continue reading →

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