Lynne Stopkewich
Lynne Stopkewich (born 1964) is a Canadian film director perhaps best known for the controversial film Kissed. Her most recent work was "Windows", an episode of the anthology series The Shields Stories. She has also directed Suspicious River and a few episodes of the TV series Bliss, Da Vinci's Inquest, The L Word and This Is Wonderland. Stopkewich generally prefers to work with cast and crew with whom she has worked before, most notably, the actress Molly Parker.."[1]
Stopkewich's approach to the gaze in film is in part informed by feminist film theory,[2] and thus her films have been described as being "darkly feminist."[3] Canadians also see in her films "a strong sense of local culture" which rises "above the American appropriation of Vancouver as a backdrop for American generic culture."[4]
References
- ^ Kalli Paakspuu, "Lynne Stopkewich: Abject Sexualities" Great Canadian Film Directors, ed. George Melnyk. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press (2007): 385. "Preferring to work with established relationships, her creative collaboration with actress Molly Parker ... has been outstanding."
- ^ Kay Armatage, Gendering the Nation Toronto: University of Toronto Press (1999): 264. "Stopkewich describes her approach to the circuit of looks as an overt decision, based on her familiarity with feminist film theory."
- ^ Paakspuu (2007): 385
- ^ Paakspuu (2007): 401
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