Professor Marston And The Wonder Women (2017) Review

The Surprising Origin Story of Wonder Woman. In the summer of 1. New York offices of All- American Comics turned up at newspapers, magazines and radio stations all over the United States. The identity of Wonder Woman’s creator had been “at first kept secret,” it said, but the time had come to make a shocking announcement: “the author of . Apple Hd Movies Trolls (2016). William Moulton Marston, internationally famous psychologist.” The truth about Wonder Woman had come out at last. Or so, at least, it was made to appear. But, really, the name of Wonder Woman’s creator was the least of her secrets.

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Wonder Woman is the most popular female comic- book superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, no other comic- book character has lasted as long. Generations of girls have carried their sandwiches to school in Wonder Woman lunchboxes.

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Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history. In one episode, a newspaper editor named Brown, desperate to discover Wonder Woman’s past, assigns a team of reporters to chase her down; she easily escapes them. Brown, gone half mad, is committed to a hospital.

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Wonder Woman disguises herself as a nurse and brings him a scroll. I’ve got the history of Wonder Woman!” But Wonder Woman’s secret history isn’t written on parchment. Instead, it lies buried in boxes and cabinets and drawers, in thousands of documents, housed in libraries, archives and collections spread all over the United States, including the private papers of creator Marston—papers that, before I saw them, had never before been seen by anyone outside of Marston’s family. The veil that has shrouded Wonder Woman’s past for seven decades hides beneath it a crucial story about comic books and superheroes and censorship and feminism. As Marston once put it, “Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who, I believe, should rule the world.”A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origins of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story- and a crucial history of twentieth- century feminism Wonder Woman.

Buy. Comic books were more or less invented in 1. Maxwell Charles Gaines, a former elementary school principal who went on to found All- American Comics. Superman first bounded over tall buildings in 1.

Batman began lurking in the shadows in 1. Kids read them by the piles. But at a time when war was ravaging Europe, comic books celebrated violence, even sexual violence. In 1. 94. 0, the Chicago Daily News called comics a “national disgrace.” “Ten million copies of these sex- horror serials are sold every month,” wrote the newspaper’s literary editor, calling for parents and teachers to ban the comics, “unless we want a coming generation even more ferocious than the present one.”To defend himself against critics, Gaines, in 1. Marston as a consultant.

Marston held three degrees from Harvard, including a Ph. D in psychology. He led what he called “an experimental life.” He’d been a lawyer, a scientist and a professor. He is generally credited with inventing the lie detector test: He was obsessed with uncovering other people’s secrets. He’d been a consulting psychologist for Universal Pictures. He’d written screenplays, a novel and dozens of magazine articles. Gaines had read about Marston in an article in Family Circle magazine. In the summer of 1.

Olive Richard, a staff writer for the magazine, visited Marston at his house in Rye, New York, to ask him for his expert opinion about comics.“Some of them are full of torture, kidnapping, sadism, and other cruel business,” she said.“Unfortunately, that is true,” Marston admitted, but “when a lovely heroine is bound to the stake, comics followers are sure that the rescue will arrive in the nick of time. The reader’s wish is to save the girl, not to see her suffer.”Marston was a man of a thousand lives and a thousand lies. She was also the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most important feminists of the 2. In 1. 91. 6, Sanger and her sister, Ethel Byrne, Olive Byrne’s mother, had opened the first birth- control clinic in the United States.

They were both arrested for the illegal distribution of contraception. In jail in 1. 91. Ethel Byrne went on a hunger strike and nearly died. Olive Byrne met Marston in 1. Tufts; he was her psychology professor. Marston was already married, to a lawyer named Elizabeth Holloway. When Marston and Byrne fell in love, he gave Holloway a choice: either Byrne could live with them, or he would leave her.

Byrne moved in. Between 1. Holloway went to work; Byrne stayed home and raised the children. They told census- takers and anyone else who asked that Byrne was Marston’s widowed sister- in- law. Byrne’s sons didn’t find out that Marston was their father until 1. Holloway finally admitted it—and only after she extracted a promise that no one would raise the subject ever again. Gaines didn’t know any of this when he met Marston in 1. He was looking to avoid controversy, not to court it.

Marston and Wonder Woman were pivotal to the creation of what became DC Comics. I’ll take a chance on your Wonder Woman! But you’ll have to write the strip yourself.”In February 1. Marston submitted a draft of his first script, explaining the “under- meaning” of Wonder Woman’s Amazonian origins in ancient Greece, where men had kept women in chains, until they broke free and escaped. She wore a golden tiara, a red bustier, blue underpants and knee- high, red leather boots. She was a little slinky; she was very kinky.

She’d left Paradise to fight fascism with feminism, in “America, the last citadel of democracy, and of equal rights for women!”It seemed to Gaines like so much good, clean, superpatriotic fun. But in March 1. 94. National Organization for Decent Literature put Sensation Comics on its blacklist of “Publications Disapproved for Youth” for one reason: “Wonder Woman is not sufficiently dressed.”Gaines decided he needed another expert. He turned to Lauretta Bender, an associate professor of psychiatry at New York University’s medical school and a senior psychiatrist at Bellevue Hospital, where she was director of the children’s ward, an expert on aggression.

She’d long been interested in comics but her interest had grown in 1. Paul Schilder, was killed by a car while walking home from visiting Bender and their 8- day- old daughter in the hospital. Bender, left with three children under the age of 3, soon became painfully interested in studying how children cope with trauma. In 1. 94. 0, she conducted a study with Reginald Lourie, a medical resident under her supervision, investigating the effect of comics on four children brought to Bellevue Hospital for behavioral problems. Tessie, 1. 2, had witnessed her father, a convicted murderer, kill himself.

She insisted on calling herself Shiera, after a comic- book girl who is always rescued at the last minute by the Flash. Kenneth, 1. 1, had been raped. He was frantic unless medicated or “wearing a Superman cape.” He felt safe in it—he could fly away if he wanted to—and “he felt that the cape protected him from an assault.” Bender and Lourie concluded the comic books were “the folklore of this age,” and worked, culturally, the same way fables and fairy tales did. That hardly ended the controversy.

In February 1. 94. Josette Frank, an expert on children’s literature, a leader of the Child Study Association and a member of Gaines’ advisory board, sent Gaines a letter, telling him that while she’d never been a fan of Wonder Woman, she felt she now had to speak out about its “sadistic bits showing women chained, tortured, etc.” She had a point. In episode after episode, Wonder Woman is chained, bound, gagged, lassoed, tied, fettered and manacled. In his original scripts, Marston described scenes of bondage in careful, intimate detail with utmost precision.

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