1978 | 00:05:45 | United States | English | Color | 4:3 | Video
Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles
Tags: Feminism, Media Analysis, Television, Video History
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A stutter-step progression of "extended moments" unmasks the technological "miracle" of Wonder Woman's transformation, playing psychological transformation off of television product. Birnbaum considers this tape an "altered state [that] renders the viewer capable of re-examining those looks which, on the surface, seem so banal that even the supernatural transformation of a secretary into a 'Wonder Woman' is reduced to a burst of blinding light and a turn of the body—a child's play of rhythmical devices inserted within the morose beligerence of the fodder that is our average television diet."
This title is also available on Surveying the First Decade: Volume 2.
Exhibitions + Festivals
MIX New York Lesbian and Gay Experiemental Film Festival, 2011