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Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography

1981 1 h 8 min
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Warning: this film contains sexually explicit material and is recommended for audiences 18 years of age and older. A thought-provoking chronicle of the odyssey of two women, Bonnie Klein, the director of the film, and Linda Lee Tracey, a stripper. Together they set out to explore the world of peep shows, strip joints and sex supermarkets. Both are motivated by the desire to know more about pornography--why it exists, the forms it takes, and how it affects relations between men and women. Not a Love Story offers insights and perspectives from men and women who earn their living in the …

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Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography

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Warning: this film contains sexually explicit material and is recommended for audiences 18 years of age and older.

A thought-provoking chronicle of the odyssey of two women, Bonnie Klein, the director of the film, and Linda Lee Tracey, a stripper. Together they set out to explore the world of peep shows, strip joints and sex supermarkets. Both are motivated by the desire to know more about pornography--why it exists, the forms it takes, and how it affects relations between men and women. Not a Love Story offers insights and perspectives from men and women who earn their living in the porn trade, and from some of pornography's most outspoken critics. This film contains sexually explicit material that may be disturbing to some people.

This work contains scenes of nudity and/or sexuality. Viewer discretion is advised.
  • director
    Bonnie Sherr Klein
  • producer
    Dorothy Todd Henaut
  • executive producer
    Kathleen Shannon
  • camera
    Pierre Letarte
  • sound
    Yves Gendron
  • editing
    Anne Henderson
  • sound editing
    Jackie Newell
  • re-recording
    Hans Peter Strobl
  • music
    Ginette Bellavance
    Sylvia Moscovitz
  • participation
    Linda Lee Tracey
    Margaret Atwood
    Kate Millett
    Robin Morgan
    Barry Kathleen
    Susan Griffin
    Edward Donnerstein
    Kenneth Pitchford

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