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The film about porn- ography whidh cultivb ated controversial opinion of late as it moved across the country finally reached Prince Eduard Island last Thursday, Novarber 12. Because of restrictions imposed by PEI's 'g censorship laws, the film could only be sl'nwn to a limited number of invited gueSts: about thirty.- five persons crammed into the Political

' Science and Philosophy

Reading. Room in Main Building to view the »» National Film Board‘s production, Not a love Story: A'Film About Pornography.

The film is about women and is made primarily by women. Kathleen Shannonh the movie's executive

producer, said that although half the film .. crew was male, all other aspects of the production were hand- led by women.

-Not a love Sto , is thorofi. m. film in- vestigates all aspects of pornography in an

a attemp to force aware— ness of the degrad— ation, albeit some- times subconscious, that all women face as a result of man's need to satiate his desires. Interviews are conducted with customers who fre— quent strip joints, males and females performing in live sex shows, women who picket peep-shoWs, and members of a "Men Against Male Violence" discussion

group .

Continued on page 9

The UPEI SUN, November 19, 1981, page 3

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Photo by Preston Delaney

Julie Dodd of the Transition House, left, listens as Kathleen Shannon, executive producer of Not a love Story: A Film About Pornography, makes a point about

fie wading effect of pornography on women.

Quebec Writer Express Himself

UPEI Main bilding, the classroom that used to be the quarters of the University security.

Canadian Film Writer to Read ' ' Place: mom 01, Basement Main Building,UPE;L

Time: 7:00 pm I Born in Montreal, Monday, November 23rd, , Ronald Sutherland is a 1981. I graduate of McGill

(me of Canada's mast distinguished literary critics, an authority in Quebec literature, a novelist and screen writer, ROnald Sutherland will be reading from his 'work at UPEI at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, November 23rd. ’ The reading will take place in the basement of

University where he received a B.A. (1954) and an M.A. (1955). He began his Ph.D. at the University of Glasgow in Scotland on a. ‘McGill- Glasgow Exchange Fellow— ship, and completed it at Wayne State University, Detroit, in 1959. Currently, Dr. Sutherland is .head of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of _ Sherbrooke, Quebec, but he is perhaps best known as one of the leading English authorities on Quebec literature in

' be reading from his novel,

to— date, Professor Sutherland will deliver a public lecture at Great George Street Gallery,the next evening— -i.e., at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, November 24th. The lecture, entitled "The Empty Cradle", will contrast Quebec Govern— ment cultural policies with what is actually happening in current Quebec literature and society.

He has also written for films, one of his most recent screenplays being for Suzanne (RSL Films) which was based on his novel, Lark des Neiges, and released in 1980. Ronald Sutherland will

Where do the MacDonalds bury their dead (General Publishi‘fi' g,_ 1976) which is set in several loc- ations in North America (California, Detroit, etc.) but the main action Centres in Montreal and therby provides a fas— cinating study of what happened in Quebec during the 'sixties and early 'seventies.

Mr Sutherland's reading

at U.P.E.I. takes place under the Canada Council public readings program; and-like his talk the following evening, at

Great George Street Gallery— is free to all members of the public.

,QIndeed, so as tobring his account of Quéaec up-

Canada', a position that he won by his greatly

Hero, which was publish- ed by Macmillan in 1977. A Commonwealth‘Visiting Professor at the Univer— ' sity of Stirling, Scot— _ land, and University of/ ’ weds, England (1969—70) Ronald Sutherland has also been» a consulting editor of the magazine,

’ Canadian Literature since 1970, and is a prolific periodical writer, his most widely knCwn articles‘ being in the Globe‘and Mail, the Montreal Gazette, and

. acclaimed study, The New ’ l

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