Open AccessNation, 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