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Bonnie Sherr Klein's 'Not a Love Story'

by (author) Rebecca Sullivan

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2014
Category
General, History & Criticism, General, Gender Studies

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781442627246
    Publish Date
    Jul 2014
    List Price
    $29.95

  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442649880
    Publish Date
    Jul 2014
    List Price
    $61.00

  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442621725
    Publish Date
    Aug 2014
    List Price
    $21.95

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Bonnie Sherr Klein’s “Not a Love Story” provocatively examines the first Canadian film to explore pornography’s role in society from a feminist perspective. Directed by Bonnie Sherr Klein for Studio D, the National Film Board’s women’s unit, the film featured both Klein and Lindalee Tracey, an activist, performance artist, and stripper, as they toured the seamier fringes of pornography and sex work in Montreal, Toronto, New York, and San Francisco. Censored in Ontario upon its release in 1981, Not a Love Story collided with the escalating “Porn Wars” that contributed to the tearing apart of the second-wave feminist movement.

Using interviews with members of the crew and extensive archival research into the production process, Rebecca Sullivan delves into the creation and reception of Not a Love Story to explore the issues of censorship, sexual labour and performance, and documentary practice that the film raised. An insightful analysis not just of the film itself but of the issues which surround feminist analyses of pornography as a genre, Bonnie Sherr Klein’s “Not a Love Story” offers a fresh assessment of Canada’s women’s movement and the politics of feminist filmmaking during a volatile era.

About the author

Rebecca Sullivan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. She has written and published extensively on cultural studies and issues in communication theory.

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