By Rebecca Sullivan

ISBN-10: 1442627247

ISBN-13: 9781442627246

ISBN-10: 1442649887

ISBN-13: 9781442649880

Bonnie Sherr Klein’s “Not a Love Story” provocatively examines the 1st Canadian movie to discover pornography’s function in society from a feminist point of view. Directed via Bonnie Sherr Klein for Studio D, the nationwide movie Board’s women’s unit, the movie featured either Klein and Lindalee Tracey, an activist, functionality artist, and stripper, as they toured the seamier fringes of pornography and intercourse paintings in Montreal, Toronto, big apple, and San Francisco. Censored in Ontario upon its unlock in 1981, Not a Love Story collided with the escalating “Porn Wars” that contributed to the tearing aside of the second-wave feminist movement.

Using interviews with individuals of the workforce and huge archival learn into the construction technique, Rebecca Sullivan delves into the construction and reception of Not a Love Story to discover the problems of censorship, sexual labour and function, and documentary perform that the movie raised. An insightful research not only of the movie itself yet of the problems which encompass feminist analyses of pornography as a style, Bonnie Sherr Klein’s “Not a Love Story” bargains a clean overview of Canada’s women’s move and the politics of feminist filmmaking in the course of a risky era.

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