Something short and sweet to start the weekend. This is from the 60’s comic Barbarella by Jean-Claude Forest, famously made into a movie by Roger Vadim with Jane Fonda. The film is objectively bad, while also being an entertaining 60’s exploitation sci-fi flick, packed with fetishistic elements.
I always enjoyed that both the film and the comic were enthusiastically recommended by my theology professor in college. He read them, especially the film, as examples of second century gnostic theology.
I’d love to know how he got to that. I don’t remember the film well enough, or understand enough about gnostic theology, in order to make the leap myself. However, I do always enjoy a deeper reading of pop culture phenomena. They often identify interesting connections.
-paltego