Not a Love Story
Encyclopedia
Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography is a documentary about the pornography
industry. It was directed by Bonnie Sherr Klein
.
It remains one of the landmark works from the Studio D, the women's studio of the National Film Board of Canada. In an ironic twist, the film had been banned in the province of Ontario
on the basis of its pornographic content - a decision that was later reversed.
Pornography
Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,...
industry. It was directed by Bonnie Sherr Klein
Bonnie Sherr Klein
Bonnie Sherr Klein is a feminist filmmaker, author, and disability rights activist.-Film-making career:Klein worked for the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal as a director and producer in the late 1960s. Between that time and the late 1980s, she made dozens of films there...
.
It remains one of the landmark works from the Studio D, the women's studio of the National Film Board of Canada. In an ironic twist, the film had been banned in the province of Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
on the basis of its pornographic content - a decision that was later reversed.
Participants
- Lindalee Tracey
- Bonnie Sherr KleinBonnie Sherr KleinBonnie Sherr Klein is a feminist filmmaker, author, and disability rights activist.-Film-making career:Klein worked for the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal as a director and producer in the late 1960s. Between that time and the late 1980s, she made dozens of films there...
- Kate MillettKate MillettKate Millett is an American lesbian feminist writer and activist. A seminal influence on second-wave feminism, Millet is best known for her 1970 book Sexual Politics.-Career:...
- Barry Kathleen
- Susan GriffinSusan GriffinSusan Griffin is an eco-feminist author. She describes her work as "draw[ing] connections between the destruction of nature, the diminishment of women and racism, and trac[ing] the causes of war to denial in both private and public life." She received a MacArthur grant for Peace and International...
- Robin MorganRobin MorganRobin Morgan is a former child actor turned American radical feminist activist, writer, poet, and editor of Sisterhood is Powerful and Ms. Magazine....
- Margaret AtwoodMargaret AtwoodMargaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...
- Kenneth PitchfordKenneth PitchfordKenneth Pitchford is an American writer, poet and novelist.Pitchford was a founding member of the male feminist Effeminist Movement and a self-described gay husband of radical feminist Robin Morgan....
- Edward Donnerstein
- Rebecca Grant
External links
- Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography (National Film Board of Canada)