{"id":680,"date":"2020-10-13T08:43:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T06:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/?page_id=680"},"modified":"2020-10-13T08:43:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T06:43:29","slug":"the-sexual-cinematic-citizen-of-studio-d","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/?page_id=680&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The Sexual-Cinematic Citizen of Studio D"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>The Sexual-Cinematic Citizen of Studio D&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Studio D, the now-defunct Women\u2019s Unit of Canada\u2019s National Film Board, has achieved legendary status for helping to create a generation of women filmmakers engaged in feminist activist documentary. From 1974-1996, it produced approximately 150 films, documenting nearly every major issue in the women\u2019s movement \u2026 except one. Sexuality, in particular the sexual politics of pleasure, are largely absent from the Studio D corpus, with only three feature documentaries produced. I argue that despite the studio\u2019s claims to be representing an international citizenry of women, it instead offered only a partial subject\/object of the woman-child: an infantilized woman subject who needed to be responsibilized into a sexuality most appropriate to the national interests. Not surprisingly, that sexuality was heteronormative, monogamous, and reproductive. Studio D was an \u201cagonistic space\u201d (Mouffe 2007) for sexual politics in Canada, in which hegemonic and counter-hegemonic praxes collided to produce both a repressive consensus within feminist media activism and its radical refusal. A close examination of&nbsp;<em>Not a Love Story<\/em>&nbsp;(1981),&nbsp;<em>Toward Intimacy<\/em>&nbsp;(1992), and&nbsp;<em>Forbidden Love<\/em>&nbsp;(1992) demonstrates how Studio D was simultaneously a provacateur, challenging national prurience, while reinforcing a conventional framework for sexual citizenship based on love, intimacy, and eros-spirituality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sexual-Cinematic Citizen of Studio D&nbsp; Studio D, the now-defunct Women\u2019s Unit of Canada\u2019s National Film Board, has achieved legendary status for helping to create a generation of women filmmakers engaged in feminist activist documentary. From 1974-1996, it produced approximately 150 films, documenting nearly every major issue in the women\u2019s movement \u2026 except one. Sexuality, &#8230; <a title=\"The Sexual-Cinematic Citizen of Studio D\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/?page_id=680&#038;lang=en\" aria-label=\"En savoir plus sur The Sexual-Cinematic Citizen of Studio D\">Lire la suite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/680\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}