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TThhee GGeennddeerreedd SSccrreeeenn WLUP Austin-Smith and Melnyk - Interior Artwork 1.indd 1 5/3/10 11:13:12 AM Brenda Austin-Smith and George Melnyk Canadian Women editors TThhee GGeennddeerreedd SSccrreeeenn Film studies is the critical exploration of cinematic texts as art and entertainment, as well as the indus- tries that produce them and the audiences that consume them. Although a medium barely one hundred Filmmakers years old, film is already transformed through the emergence of new media forms. Media studies is an interdisciplinary field that considers the nature and effects of mass media upon individuals and society and analyzes media content and representations. Despite changing modes of consumption—especially the proliferation of individuated viewing technologies—film has retained its cultural dominance into the 21st century, and it is this transformative moment that the WLU Press Film and Media Studies series addresses. Our Film and Media Studies series includes topics such as identity, gender, sexuality, class, race, visuality, space, music, new media, aesthetics, genre, youth culture, popular culture, consumer culture, regional/national cinemas, film policy, film theory, and film history. Wilfrid Laurier University Press invites submissions. For further information, please contact the Series editors, all of whom are in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University: Dr. Philippa Gates Department of English and Film Studies Email: [email protected] Wilfrid Laurier University 75 University Avenue West Dr. Russell Kilbourn Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 Email: [email protected] Canada Dr. Ute Lischke Phone: 519-884-0710 Email: [email protected] Fax: 519-884-8307 WLUP Austin-Smith and Melnyk - Interior Artwork 1.indd 2 5/3/10 11:13:13 AM Brenda Austin-Smith and George Melnyk CCaannaaddiiaann WWoommeenn editors TThhee GGeennddeerreedd SSccrreeeenn Filmmakers WLUP Austin-Smith and Melnyk - Interior Artwork 1.indd 3 5/3/10 11:13:13 AM This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Wilfrid Laurier University Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through its Book Publishing Industry Development Program for our publishing activities. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication The gendered screen : Canadian women filmmakers / Brenda Austin-Smith and George Melnyk, editors. (Film and media studies series) Includes bibliographical references and index. Also available in electronic format. ISBN 978-1-55458-179-5 1. Feminist films—Canada—History and criticism. 2. Women motion picture producers and directors—Canada. 3. Women in motion pictures. 4. Lesbians in motion pictures. 5. Nationalism in motion pictures. I. Austin-Smith, Brenda, 1958– II. Melnyk, George III. Series: Film and media studies series PN1995.9.W6G44 2010 791.43082'0971 C2009-906511-8 ISBN 978-1-55458-195-5 Electronic format. 1. Feminist films—Canada—History and criticism. 2. Women motion picture producers and directors—Canada. 3. Women in motion pictures. 4. Lesbians in motion pictures. 5. Nationalism in motion pictures. I. Austin-Smith, Brenda, 1958– II. Melnyk, George III. Series: Film and media studies series PN1995.9.W6G44 2010a 791.43082'0971 C2009-907079-0 © 2010 Brenda Austin-Smith and George Melnyk Cover and text design by Blakeley Words+Pictures. Front-cover image shows Christina Cox and Karen Dwyer in Better Than Chocolate (dir. Anne Wheeler). Photo by Rosamond Norbury. This book is printed on FSC recycled paper and is certified Ecologo. It is made from 100% post-consumer fibre, processed chlorine free, and manufactured using biogas energy. Printed in Canada Every reasonable effort has been made to acquire permission for copyright material used in this text, and to acknowledge all such indebtedness accurately. Any errors and omissions called to the publisher’s attention will be corrected in future printings. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written consent of the publisher or a licence from The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). For an Access Copyright licence, visit www.accesscopyright.ca or call toll free to 1-800-893-5777. WLUP Austin-Smith and Melnyk - Interior Artwork 1.indd 4 5/3/10 11:13:14 AM To women filmmakers everywhere WLUP Austin-Smith and Melnyk - Interior Artwork 1.indd 5 5/3/10 11:13:14 AM This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements ix 1 Introduction Canadian Women Filmmakers: Re-imaging Authorship, Nationality, and Gender Brenda-Austin Smith and George Melnyk 3 2 Feminist/Feminine Binaries and the Body Politic The Art of Craft: The Films of Andrea Dorfman Andrew Burke 25 Feminist Ambiguity in the Film Adaptations of Lynne Stopkewich Lee Parpart 43 On the Edge of Genre: Anne Wheeler’s Interrogating Maternal Gaze Kathleen Cummins 67 Fluidity: Joyce Wieland’s Political Cinema Kay Armatage 95 3 Queer Nation and Popular Culture The Art of Making Do: Queer Canadian Girls Make Movies Jean Bruce 115 Feminist Filmmaking and the Cinema of Patricia Rozema Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo 127 vii WLUP Austin-Smith and Melnyk - Interior Artwork 1.indd 7 5/3/10 11:13:14 AM Contents Léa Pool: The Art of Elusiveness Florian Grandena 141 4 Transiting Nationality and the Battlefields of Otherness On the Field of Battle: First Nations Women Documentary Filmmakers Anthony Adah 165 Eradicating Erasure: The Documentary Film Practice of Sylvia Hamilton Shana McGuire and Darrell Varga 185 Women, Liminality, and “Unhomeliness” in the Films of Mina Shum Brenda Austin-Smith 203 Beyond Tradition and Modernity: The Transnational Universe of Deepa Mehta Christina Stojanova 217 Les Québécoises Jerry White 233 Contributors 251 Index 255 viii WLUP Austin-Smith and Melnyk - Interior Artwork 1.indd 8 5/3/10 11:13:14 AM Acknowledgements The editors would like to thank the Aid to Scholarly Publishing Program of SSHRC for its financial support for this book. This project has taken several years and has been helped by various people. In particular we would like to acknowledge the valuable comments made by the anonymous readers of the initial manu- script. Their observations allowed us to improve the editorial content and theo- retical framing of the book. We would like to thank our respective families for their support during the preparation of the manuscript. The staff at Wilfrid Laurier University Press has been exceedingly professional in their assistance and we are pleased to have this book included in the Film and Media Studies Series. ix WLUP Austin-Smith and Melnyk - Interior Artwork 1.indd 9 5/3/10 11:13:14 AM
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