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- ↑ Kalli Paakspuu, "Lynne Stopkewich: Abject Sexualities" Great Canadian Film Directors, ed. George Melnyk. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press (2007): 394
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- ↑ Melnyk, George; Austin-Smith, Brenda (2010). The gendered screen : Canadian women filmmakers. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. pp. 43. ISBN 9781554582716.
- ↑ 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
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