在剑桥电影手册系列﹣戈达尔中看到对Barbarella一个很有趣的引用，从另一个角度解释了后新浪潮时期法国电影的转型：
As the state of France is inscribed on the body of women in the 60s, now a woman's body symbolizes the change. In 1967, the apotheosis of American influence was achieved in Roger's film version of Jean-Claude Forest's sic-fi erotic comic strip,Barbarella, which starred Amercian actress Jane Fonda as robotic sex object. But by 1972, when Fonda returned to French film in Tout va bien, her role was that of an earnest, feminist journalist.（Jill Forbes, Pierrot le fou and Post-New Wave Cinema.）
如果说60年代女性身体对法国人来说是国家标志上象征自由平等博爱的Marianne的剪影，那么对于美国人来说则是象征性与英雄主义的巴巴丽娜。这位性感女英雄的出现标志着改变，她让深受希区柯克和gangster movie影响的电影手册派导演认识到美国电影已经不再是他们所热爱的那个了，是时候和美国大众电影说分手了。
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