"The idea of including 'parallax' came from my desire to integrate cinematic elements with the subject of the work. The split-screen device employed by the film is meant both to comment on the technical mechanism of film and to highlight the shift in meaning or double interpretation sometimes associated with communication between two people."
-- Midi Onodera
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Quote about Ten Cents a Dance (Parallax)
"Shown at the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in 1986 as part of a program of lesbian shorts, Ten Cents offers three semicomic narrative panels. The central panel, an eight-minute, static long-take showing a high-angle view of two frisky, taciturn, and efficient young men having sex in a public toilet, provoked the never-forgotten riot at the Roxy Theatre, in which lesbian spectators shouted at the screen, stomped out of the auditorium, and, legend has it, even stormed the projection booth."
-- Thomas Waugh
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Bibliography for Ten Cents a Dance (Parallax)
Book Chapters
Martin, Elizabeth, and Vivian Meyer. "Midi Onodera: Ten Cents a Dance (Parallax) ." In Female Gazes: Seventy-Five Women Artists, 162-63. Toronto: Second Story Press, 1997.
Brief Sections of Books
Mayne, Judith. "A Parallax View of Lesbian Authorship." In Feminisms in the Cinema, edited by Laura Pietropaolo and Ada Testaferri. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. (pp. 199-204)
Mayne, Judith. "A Parallax View of Lesbian Authorship." In Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. (153-160)
Mayne, Judith. The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women's Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. (pp. 225-228)
Onodera, Midi. "Locating the Displaced View." In Feminisms in the Cinema, edited by Laura Pietropaolo and Ada Testaferri. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. (pp. 24-25)
Waugh, Thomas. The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. (pp. 256-259)
