Socialism or Barbara-ism

so while watching Barbara Loder’s materialist-feminist road movie Wanda (1970) last night, I came up with the idea for a new module, Socialism or Barbara-ism: The Cinematic Critique of Capitalist Patriarchy, focusing on:
Barbara Bach in The Spy Who Loved Me (Gilbert 1977)
Barbara Bel Geddes in Caught (Ophuls 1949) and Vertigo (Hitchcock 1958)
Barbara Carrera in Embryo (Nelson 1976),
Barbara Eden in The Feminist and the Fuzz (Paris 1971)
Barbara Flynn in A Very Peculiar Practice (1986–88)
Barbara Hershey in Boxcar Bertha (Scorsese 1972)
Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County, USA (1976)
Barbara Loden in Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970)
Barbara Stanwyck in Baby Face (Green 1933), Double Indemnity (Wilder 1944) and Cattle Queen of Montana (Dwan 1954)
Barbara Steele in Shivers (Cronenberg 1975)
Barb(a)ra Streisand in The Way We Were (Pollack 1973)
Barbara Windsor in Carry On Girls (Thomas 1973) and Comrades (Douglas 1986)
oh, and Barbara Bain in Commander Xenophobe and His Rogue Moon (1975–77)
plus
Barbie (Gerwig 2023)
Barbara (Petzold 2012)
Bubbara Ho-Tep (Coscarelli 2002)
Barb Wire (Hogan 1996)
Barbara-ian Queen (Olivera 1985)
Barbaraella (Vadim 1968)
Nights of Carbarbara (Fellini 1957)
Major Barbara (Pascal, French and Lean 1941)
The Winning of Barbara Worth (King 1926)
and Barbaraship Potemkin (Eisenstein 1925)

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