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Nation, Genre and Female Performance in Canadian Cinema

Author(s) -

Murat Akser

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

cinej cinema journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2159-2411

pISSN - 2158-8724

DOI - 10.5195/cinej.2013.72

Subject(s) - movie theater , theme (computing) , dysfunctional family , persona , identity (music) , space (punctuation) , gender studies , sociology , film genre , aesthetics , art , literature , psychology , linguistics , humanities , philosophy , computer science , psychotherapist , operating system

This paper outlines a theory of sytle and performance in Canadian film based on geography, gender and genre. It is possible to form a theory of Canadian cinema based on theme-genre (strong women, nature as oppressor in dysfunctional family melodramas) in which female characters, as well as their personas, interact with both a physical geography and a social space to define a Canadian identity

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