After years of trashy remakes and underwhelming supporting roles,do Jessica Jones, Agent Carter and Supergirl represent a unique era of female (super) empowerment?Line up all the female superheroes who have appeared on screen, and silver or small,and what similarities do you notice? Amazonian bodies contorted into spine-snapping action poses? An unsettling mish-mash of opposing desires and stereotypes, somehow both sexually deviant and virginal? Empowerment bound up in an “enhancing” costume? And that’s before you’ve even opened a comedian book. Related: Does The Man in the tall Castle prove that the best TV is now streamed? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com