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Anderson, Elizabeth S. "Pirating Feminisms: Film and the Production of Post-War Canadian National Identity," American Studies Program, University of Minnesota, September 1996.
This dissertation explores the problem of defining the culturally plural nation through a case study of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), a state-funded agency formed in 1939. Focusing on Studio D, a feminists film unit formed at the NFB in 1974, I study the connection between Canadian national identity and cultural production, as well as interactions between gender identity and national identity. Through a historical and cultural analysis of the discursive formation of Studio D, I argue that it has been both complicit in and potentially disruptive of discourses of nationhood, national identity, and national unity.
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