INTRODUCTION

- One of the most important greek myths. - More than seven legends exist.

- From Homer (VIII BC) to Quintus Smyrnaeus (IV AD). - Almost 1700 greek vases representing amazons, also sculptures, reliefs, etc.

- A kingdom ruled by women

Attic black-figure neck amphora. c. 520 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art

Athenian red-figure vase, c. 490 BC. Musée du Louvre

Lucanian red-figure bell-krater, late 5th century BC. Museo Arqueológico Nacional,

Madrid

CONTEMPORARY AMAZONS

- A myth alive to this days. - Until XX century: Novels, Classical music, Theater, etc.

- XX-XXI Centuries: Films, Comics, TV Series, etc.

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Bronze figurine of an Amazon, Trikala, Thessaly

550-525 BCE

Roman Mosaic depicting a battle with Amazons discovered near Antakya Turkey 2nd - 4th century CE-Photographed at The Musée du Louvre in Paris,

France.

High relief of Amazonomachia, conserved at the National Archaeological Museum in

Athens

1900-1960

The Amazons

(1917) USA

Director: Joseph Kaufman.

Stars: Marguerite Clark, Eleanor Lawson, Helen

Greene.

Three sisters, all raised as boys, have trouble fitting into male-dominated

society.

The March of the Amazons (1902) UK

Director: George Albert Smith.

Stars: ?¿?¿

16 girls marching and dancing.

Queen of the Amazons (1947) 61 Min. USA

Director: Edward Finney.

Stars: Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison, J. Edward Bromberg.

A woman's husband has disappeared on an expedition into the

jungle. She hires a guide to take her into the jungle to find him.

However, they discover that he has been

captured by a savage female tribe.

Tarzan and the Amazons

(1945) 76 Min.

Director: Kurt Neumann.

Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda

Joyce, Johnny Sheffield.

A group of

archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them

find an ancient city in a hidden valley of

women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into

doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help

them.

Love Slaves of the Amazons (1957) , 81

min. USA

Director: Curt Siodmak

Stars: Don Taylor, Gianna Segale,

Eduardo Ciannelli.

A party of explorers in the Amazon jungle are captured by a tribe of women, and learn that they are to be used as

the tribe's "love slaves."

1960-1970

Colossus and the Amazons

(1960). Italy

Director: Vittorio Sala.

Stars: Rod Taylor, Ed Fury, Dorian Gray,

Daniela Rocca.

Italian satirical comedy film. After the Trojan War, Glauco is the

strongest man amongst the Greeks. The ship

lands at a strange place where Pirro and the

other men aboard are drugged and find

themselves in the hands of the Amazons.

Thor and the amazon women (1963), 95 min.

Italy

Director: Antonio Leonviola.

Stars: Susy Andersen, Joe Robinson, Harry Baird.

A race of Amazon warriors is enslaving the men of a country, and

the mighty Thor is called upon to help them regain

their freedom.

Lana: Queen of the Amazons

(1964) Germany

Director: Cyl Farney, Géza von Cziffra.

Stars: Anton Diffring, Catherine Schell, Christian Wolff.

A scientist and his nephew are hosts of Lana, queen of the Amazons, while

other crew men try to find and take hold of the legendary Amazons'

treasure.

Amazons of Rome (1961) 105 min. Italy

Director: Carlo Ludovico, Vittorio

Cottafavi. Stars: Louis Jourdan,

Sylvia Syms, Jean Chevrier, Nicole Cource.

Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his

onslaught if the Romans hand over hostages,

including Clelia, the sexy leader of a clan of woman warriors.

The Amazons

(1968). 60 min.

Director: Robert D. Cardona.

Stars: Clinton Greyn, Veronica Strong,

Ken Barker.

An old British scientist and his daughters are

trapped in their Amazon jungle fortress

by Von Braunner, who's leading the local Indians against them. All looks hopeless until Virgin, Doublett and Mrs. Cortez arrive.

Battle of the amazons (1973) 100 min. Italy

Director: Alfonso Brescia.

Stars: Lincoln Tate, Lucretia Love, Paola

Tedesco.

A tribe of vicious female warriors terrorizes the

countryside, and especially the males, until one day the

men and some local villagers decide to fight

back.

The 14 amazons (1972) 123 min. China

Directors: Kang Cheng, Shao-yung Tung.

Stars: Hua Chung, Mei Sheng, Chung-Hsin Huang.

The Yang family, men and women, had served their country (Song Dynasty) loyally for generations.

During the war with Western Xia, General Yang Tsung-pao is ambushed and killed. His death leaves his only son,

Yang Wen as the only male heir left to the Yang family.

1970-1980

War Goddesss (1973) Italy, France, Spain

Director: Terence Young

Stars: Alena Johnston, Sabine Sun.

An european Amazon tribe need to select a leader so they have their top two

warriors strip to the waist, get oiled up by some

handmaidens and then enter into a mighty wrestling match

to see who will be the next War Goddess.

Amazons For Two Adventurers (1974) West

Germany/Italy/Spain/Colombia

Director: Ernst Hofbauer & Fernando Orozco.

Stars: Robert Widmark, Wolf Goldan.

In this more adventure-oriented entry the superguys

encounter a bunch of cute but nasty amazons while

treasurehunting in the amazon jungle. Blink and you'll miss swedish sleaze starlet Marie

Ekorre as one of the amazons.

Swallows and Amazons

(1974) 92 min. UK

Director: Claude Whatham.

Stars: Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser, Simon West.

On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to

sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set

up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has been the territory of two other girls who sail the

Amazon, and the scene is set for serious rivalry.

Amazons and Supermen (1974) 105 min. Italy

Director: Alfonso Brescia.

Stars: Aldo Canti, Marc Hannibal, Hua Yueh.

Three men with supernatural powers interfere in a tribal

warfare to prevent evil Amazons destroying the inhabitants of a village.

1970-1980

Maciste contre la reine des Amazones

(1974) 88 min. France

Director: Jesús Franco.

Stars: Wal Davis, Alice Arno.

In medieval France, traveler

Pygar tells he-man Maciste of

his recent journey to a place

called Antigua, and of its

entire community of Amazons

promising undreamed of

sexual satisfaction to any

man who comes upon them.

Kilma, Queen of the Amazons

(1977)

Director: Miguel Iglesias. Stars: Blanca Estrada, Frank

Braña, Claudia Gravy.

A sailor escapes a mutiny on his ship and finds himself

stranded on a jungle island--with a tribe of gorgeous

amazon women.

Clan of Amazons

(1978) China.

Director: Chor Yuen.

Stars: Fei Ai, Shen Chan, Ying Cheung.

The Embroidery Bandit is stealing treasures while blinding

his victims. The hero Liu Xiaofeng is called in to solve the mystery. The evidence points to the all-woman Clan of the Red

Shoes - but appearances can be deceptive....

1970-1980

Gold of the Amazon Women (1979) TV Movie. 100 min. USA

Director: Mark L. Lester.

Stars: Bo Svenson, Anita Ekberg, Donald Pleasence.

An adventurer searches for the fabled Golden Cities of El Dorado and allies himself with a tribe of

Amazon women against a murderous villain who is also after

the treasure.

Amazons

(1984) USA

Director: Paul Michael Glaser.

Stars: Madeleine Stowe, Jennifer Warren.

A female doctor treats a senator who comes to the

emergency room with appendicitis. The senator is

killed. When the senator's wife demands an investigation, the

female doctor discovers a conspiracy caused by

descendants from the ancient race of Amazons.

1980-1990

Swallows and Amazons Forever!: Coot Club

(1984)TV Movie . 100 min. UK

Director: Andrew Morgan.

Stars: Rosemary Leach, John Woodvine, Colin Baker.

Amazons

(1984) USA

Director: Paul Michael Glaser.

Stars: Madeleine Stowe, Jennifer Warren.

A cult of descendants of the Amazons plot to take

control of mankind, but an inquisitive doctor might

uncover their plans.

Amazon Women on the Moon

(1984) 85 min.

Director: Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb.

Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Michelle Pfeiffer, Arsenio

Hall.

A spoof 1950's sci-fi movie, interspersed with various comedy sketches.

America 3000

(1986) USA

Director: David Engelbach.

Stars: Chuck Wagner, Laurene Landon, Sue Giosa.

In Colorado, 900 years after a nuclear war in the USA, the mankind is back to the stone ages. Amazons are ruling the

tribes, the men are dumb, either kept as slaves and

couplers or are living wild as animals.

The Treasure of the Amazon (1985) 104 min.

Mexico

Director: René Cardona Jr.

Stars: Stuart Whitman, Donald Pleasence, Bradford Dillman.

A ragtag group of

adventurers, including a former Nazi, is led by a half-maddened grizzled treasure hunter who wants a second chance to find the mythical

treasure of the Amazon, after his first mission went terrible

wrong.

Golden Temple amazons (1986) 86 min. France

Directors: Alain Payet, Jesús Franco.

Stars: Analía Ivars, William Berger, Antonio

Mayans.

A woman, raised by an Amazon tribe after they killed her parents, seeks revenge on the tribe for their deaths

by joining an expedition looking for the tribe's secret

golden temple.

1980-1990

Barbarian Queen (1985) 72 min. USA

Director: Héctor Olivera.

Stars: Lana Clarkson, Katt Shea, Frank Zagarino.

Set during the days of the Roman Empire. A simple

village is raided by Roman troops, and most of the

people are whisked off to be slaves or killed. Three women survive and set off to liberate

their people.

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986) 99 min. USA

Director: Gary Nelson.

Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, James

Earl Jones.

Allan Quatermain once again teams up with Jesse Huston

where the discovery of a mysterious old gold piece

sends Quatermain looking for his long-lost brother, missing

in the wilds of Africa after seeking a lost white race.

Amazons (1986)87 min. USA

Director: Alejandro Sessa.

Stars: Ty Randolph, Penelope Reed, Joseph

Whipp.

An epic from the dark ages about the legendary lost tribe of warrior women! The girls

fly into danger, come up against fierce tribes, fall prey

to sorcery, put to rest a family rivalry of centuries past and battle to victory!

1980-1990

Stormquest

(1987) 90 min.

Director: Alejandro Sessa.

Stars: Brent Huff, Kai Baker, Monica Gonzaga.

In a female-ruled society where men are kept solely for

breeding, two women come to believe that their society's

treatment of men is wrong, and lead them in a revolt against

the system.

Amazon Warrior (1998) 83 min. USA

Director: Dennis Devine.

Stars: J. Rodgers, Raymond Storti, Jimmy Jerman.

In a post-apocalyptic world, a

camp of Amazon women is raided by a gang of

murderous bandits, who kill everyone in the camp except one small girl. She grows up to be a mercenary, and one

day she takes a job escorting the two daughters of a

powerful warlord across a river.

Rana, Queen of the Amazon

(1994) USA

Stars: Pamela Sutch, Tina Krause

In the 1940s, Rana,

queen of the Amazons, has to face up to the

invasion of her natural paradise by the evil

explorer, Ilsa. Eventually both go through

unspeakable horror, and gore.

Hercules and the Amazon Women

(1994) TV. 91 min. USA

Director: Bill L. Norton.

Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Anthony Quinn.

Hercules and Iolaus take

time out from Iolaus' wedding preparations, to

help a distant village under attack from "monsters". When they reach their

destination, they find the monsters are in fact

Amazonian women who are controlled by Hera.

Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back

(1990) 80 min. USA

Director: Joe Finley.

Stars: Lana Clarkson, Greg Wrangler, Rebecca

Wood.

In a final and epic battle in the thrilling sequel to the now classic "Barbarian

Queen", Althalia, leads a revolt of peasants and

female warriors against the wicked ruler, Arkaris, to

regain her throne.

1990-2000

Amazons and Gladiators

(2001) 89 Min. Australia

Director: Zachary Weintraub

Stars: Patrick Bergin, Jennifer Rubin.

A slave dancer is freed from her Roman masters

by an Amazon warrior and is trained as an Amazon warrior and

seeks vengeance on the ambitious corrupt Roman general who attacked her

village and slain her family.

2000-2010

The Interplanetary Surplus Male and

Amazon Women of Outer Space

(2003) USA

Director: Sam Firstenberg.

Stars: David Rabius, Barbara Sharp.

Social satire disguised as a sex comedy......The

Surplus Male is reminiscent of the sci-fi

pot-boilers of the 50s and 60s, as well as a spoof of low-budget filmmaking.

She Wolves of the Wasteland

(2007) 85 min.

Director: Robert Hayes.

Stars: Kathleen Kinmont, Persis Khambatta.

A post-apocalyptic classic that features women--lots and lots of women--who

leave little to the imagination as they battle

each other in various junkyards and gravel pits to determine the fate of the

entire world.

Wonder Woman (2009) 74 min.

Stars: Keri Russell.

On the mystical island of Themyscira, a proud and

fierce warrior race of Amazons have raised a

daughter of untold beauty, grace and

strength Princess Diana. When an Army fighter

pilot, Steve Trevor, crash-lands on the island, the

rebellious and headstrong Diana defies Amazonian law by accompanying

Trevor back to civilization.

The Last of the Amazons

(2009) 85 min.

Director: Savannah Quinn.

Stars: Devorah Lynne Dishington, Mitch Gavin, Elisabeth

Granli.

Naima is trying to guide her tribe and reunite the queen with her long lost

sister- (witch of the forest).

2010-2020

Ice

(2011) 90 Min. Japan.

Director: Makoto Kobayashi.

Stars: Erena Ono, Serena Varghese.

Some strange virus, whether planned or

accidental, has wiped out most of the population. The survivors? Beautiful women. Faced with the possible extinction of

their entire race, some of these new Amazons have decided to live out their final days in the pursuit only of fleshly pleasures.

Legendary Amazons

(2011) 107 min. China

Director: Frankie Chan.

Stars: Cecilia Cheung, Xiaoqing Liu, Richie Ren.

In early 11th century China, the Song Dynasty

is being invaded by armies of the rival state Western Xia. Yang, the

last of a long line of Song generals, is killed and his widowed wife

Mu leads other widows into battle to save their

dynasty.

Inara, the Jungle Girl (2012) 71 min. USA

Director: Patrick

Desmarattes. Stars: Brittany Bass,

Cali Danger.

Inara, launches viewers into the life of Inara a

young girl in the military whose world comes

crashing down when her father passes away after a failed mission to the

island of N'iah.

Wonder Woman

(?¿)

Director: Sam R.

Balcomb. Stars: Rileah Vanderbilt.

Diana of Themyscira, the super-short teaser

cuts between a modern city where

Diana faces off against a group of nameless SWAT guys and the

top of Mount Olympus in Themyscira, where

she is joined by several other Amazonians as they’re confronted by an army of mountain-

sized minotaurs.

Wonder Woman

(2017) USA

Director: ?¿

Stars: Gal Gadot.

Gal Gadot has already been cast as the

character with her first appearance poised to

be in Batman v Superman, and it’s

strange to think that even though Marvel has already had an 11-film head start on DC, the latter will be the first out of the gate with a

female superhero movie.

TV SERIES

Xena. The Warrior Princess

(1995-2001) USA-New Zeland

Stars: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor.

Wonder Woman

(1977) USA

Director: Bruce Bilson.

Stars: Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, Richard

Eastham.

Charlie´s Angels

(1976-1981) USA

Stars: Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd, Shelley Hack,

Tanya Roberts, David Doyle.

The Bionic Woman

(1976-1978) USA

Stars: Lindsay Wagner, Richard Anderson, Martin E. Brooks.

Nikita

(2010-2013) USA

Stars: Maggie Q, Shane West, Lyndsy

Fonseca, Aaron Stanford, Melinda

Clarke.

COMIC

RELATIVE

CONCLUSIONS

Adapted histories

Behavior rules

Feminine figures protagonists

Independent and brave women

The importance of the feminist movements

Stereotypes rupture

Feminine icons

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