Dara Birnbaum’s “Technology / Transformation: Wonder Woman”

In this video, Dara Birnbaum appropriates footage from the 1970s TV show Wonder Woman to examine and deconstruct the representation of women in popular culture and mass media. Birnbaum isolates and loops moments of the main character Diana Prince’s transformation from an office administrator into the heroic Wonder Woman, using repetition and editing to call attention to the constructed nature of filmmaking.