References
Click on a header below for scholarly and journalistic sources. And be sure to check out the NFB’s Studio D Channel, with over fifty Studio D films (and growing) available for streaming.
Akler. Howard. ‘The National Film Board of Canada & Studio D.’ Defining Moments Canada [website].
Anderson, Elizabeth. 2016. ‘Studio D’s Imagined Community: From Development to Realignment.’ In Gendering the Nation, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 41–61. doi:10.3138/9781442675223-005.
Burgess, Diane. 2003. ‘Leaving Gender Aside: The Legacy of Studio D?’ In Women Filmmakers: Refocusing. Vancouver?: UBC Press. 418-433. https://doi.org/10.59962/9780774850407.
Bruce, Jean, and Gerda Cammaer. Forbidden Love. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015.
Hays, Matthew. 2017. ‘Filmmaking Has a Gender Problem. Here’s What Happened When Canada Tried to Solve It.’ Time.Com.
James, C. L. 1999. ‘Women’s History on Film: Requiem for Studio D.’ The Canadian Historical Review, 80 (1): 93-96.
Martín-Flórez, Camilo. 2024. ‘Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Studio D’s Founding, Part 1: Kathleen Shannon and the Formative Years.’ NFB Blog. 26-February.
Martín-Flórez, Camilo. 2024. ‘Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Studio D’s Founding, Part 2: Award-Winning Pioneers of Feminist Filmmaking.’ NFB Blog. 28-February.
Nash, Terre. 1998. ‘Against the Grain: Kathleen Shannon in Memoriam.’ This, 31 (6): 36.
Shannon, Kathleen. 2018 (originally published in 1995). ‘D Is for Dilemma.’ Herizons, 31 (3): 24.
Sherbarth, Chris. 1987. ‘Who Not D?: An Historical Look at the NFB’s Woman’s Studio.’ Cinema Canada, 139 (March): 9-13.
Sullivan, Rebecca. 2014. Bonnie Sherr Klein’s Not a Love Story. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Sun-Kyung Yi. 1994. ‘Trouble in Paradise or Testing the Limits at Studio D.’ Take One, 2 (5).
Timmins, John. 1986. ‘Kathleen Shannon: Goodbye to All That.’ Cinema Canada 134 (October): 35
Vanstone, Gail. D Is for Daring: The Women behind the Films of Studio D. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2007.
Waugh, Thomas. 2006. ‘Forbidden Love or Queering the National Film Board.’ In The Romance of Transgression in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. 146-179.
Bociurkiw, Marusya. 2016. ‘Big Affect: The Ephemeral Archive of Second-Wave Feminist Video Collectives in Canada.’ Camera Obscura, 31 (3): 5–33. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3661991.
Bradley, Maureen. 2006. ‘Report: Reframing the Montreal Massacre: Strategies for Feminist Media Activism.’ Canadian Journal of Communication, 31 (4): 929–36. https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2006v31n4a1869.
Burgess, Marilyn. 2010. Needs Assessment for Gender-Based Impact Analysis of the Canadian Feature Film Policy. Toronto: Telefilm Canada, 2010.
Coon, David R. 2018. Turning the Page?: Storytelling as Activism in Queer Film and Media. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Davis, Heather. 2017. Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Dirse, Zoe. 2003. ‘The Gender of the Gaze in Cinematography: A Woman with a Movie Camera.’ In Women Filmmakers: Refocusing. Vancouver: UBC Press. 434-466. https://doi.org/10.59962/9780774850407.
Dirse, Zoe. 2013. ‘Gender in Cinematography: Female Gaze (Eye) behind the Camera.’ Journal of Research in Gender Studies, 3 (1): 15–29.
Hess, Amie, and Kris Macomber. 2021. ‘“My Parents Never Read My Papers, but They Watched My Film”: Documentary Filmmaking as Feminist Pedagogy.’ Gender and Education, 33 (3): 306–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2020.1763921.
William Hill, Richard and Hila Peleg, eds. 2022. Alanis Obomsawin: Lifework. Munich: Prestel.
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Juhasz, Alexandra. 1994. ‘“They Said We Were Trying to Show Reality – All I Want to Show Is My Video”: The Politics of the Realist Feminist Documentary.’ Screen, 35 (2): 171–90. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/35.2.171.
Kaplan, E Ann. 1982. ‘Theories and Strategies of the Feminist Documentary.’ Millennium Film Journal, 12: 44–67.
Martineau, Barbara Halpern. 1984. ‘Talking about Our Lives and Experiences: Some Thoughts about Feminism, Documentary, and Talking Heads.’ In Show Us Life: Toward a History and Aesthetics of the Committed Documentary. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. 252-273.
Mouffe, Chantal. 2007. ‘Artistic Activism and Agonistic Spaces.’ Art and Research: A Journal of Ideas, Contexts and Methods, 1 (2): 1-5.
O’Brien, Anne. 2018. ‘(Not) Getting the Credit: Women, Liminal Subjectivity and Resisting Neoliberalism in Documentary Production.’ Media, Culture & Society, 40 (5): 673–88. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443717734405.
Schreader. Alicia. 1990. ‘The State Funded Women’s Movement: A Case of Two Political Agendas.’ In Community Organization and the Canadian State. Toronto: Garamond. 184-199.
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Sopinka, Heather. 2022. ‘How the radical feminist artists of the 1970s can help us navigate our monstrous times.’ Toronto: The Globe and Mail. 6 October.
Waldman, Diane, and Janet Walker, eds. Feminism and Documentary. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Clemens, Michael D. 2022. Screening Nature and Nation: The Environmental Documentaries of the National Film Board, 1939–1974. Athabasca: Athabasca University Press. doi:10.15215/aupress/9781771993357.01.
Diamond, Bonnie and Francine Fournier. 1987. Equality and Access: A New Social Contract. Montreal: National Film Board of Canada.
Druick, Zoë. 2014. Projecting Canada: Government Policy and Documentary Film at the National Film Board. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Evans, Gary. 2001. In the National Interest?: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. doi:10.3138/9781442676084.
Inuk, Angry. 2017. Indigenous Filmmaking at the NFB: An Overview. Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, 2017.
Low, Brian J. 2006. NFB Kids: Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-1989. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Mclnnes, Graham, and Gene Walz. One Man’s Documentary: A Memoir of the Early Years of the National Film Board. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2014.
Monk, Lorraine. 1975. The Female Eye?: The National Film Board of Canada Salutes International Women’s Year [Coup d’oeil Féminin?: L’Office National Du Film Du Canada Célèbre l’Année International de La Femme 1975]. Toronto: Clarke Irwin.
National Film Board of Canada. 1984. Beyond the Image: A Guide to Films about Women and Change.
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Nellis, Robert. 2009. Haunting Inquiry: Classic NFB Documentary, Jacques Derrida, and the Curricular Otherwise. Boston: BRILL.
Saint-Pierre, Marie-Josée. 2024. Women and Film Animation: A Feminist Corpus at the National Film Board of Canada 1939-1989. Milton: CRC Press. doi:10.1201/9781032694382.
Waugh, Thomas, Ezra Winton, Michael Brendan Baker. 2010. Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada. Montréal [Que.]: McGill-Queen’s University Press.