"Cinematically, The Displaced View tackles the notion of the
documentary as truth. The construction of the film is documentary based,
insofar as nonactors perform in stories which are based on authentic oral
history -- the cultural and familial links between three generations of
Japanese-Canadian women. However, the stories are reconstructed and
reassembled through a script, and the creation of a fictional family is used as the vehicle by which the audience reads the story."
-- Midi Onodera
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Bibliography for Displaced View
Brief Sections of Books
Onodera, Midi. "Locating the Displaced View." In Feminisms in the Cinema, edited by Laura Pietropaolo and Ada Testaferri. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. (pp. 22-24)
Dissertation Chapters
Sivak, Nadine. "Exposing the Limits of Knowledge: The Displaced View and Skin Deep." In "'Howwe Gonna Find My Me?': Postcolonial Identities in Contemporary North American Drama and Film," 99-139. PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2000.
