Wings on Her Shoulder
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Canada, 1943 (documentaire, 9 minutes, noir et blanc, anglais)
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Autre titre :
« Nos femmes ailées »
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| Image : © Office national du film du Canada |
Description du film :
« Ce film montre le savoir-faire de la division féminine de l'Aviation royale du Canada. En 1943, cette division se composait d'environ 9 000 femmes entraînées pour servir tant au Canada qu'à l'étranger. Au centre d'entraînement, elles reçoivent formation et éducation. Elles remplacent les hommes dans toutes les fonctions sauf le vol. En participant à la destinée du pays en temps de guerre, elles souhaitent conserver la place acquise dans l'aviation civile d'après-guerre. »
-- Office national du film du Canada
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National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada |
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Citations sur Wings on Her Shoulder [en anglais]
« If contemporary feminists sense omissions and patronizing in the film, one
must at least acknowledge that The World in Action [series]
expressed a positive attitude to working women and was conditioning
audiences to become accustomed to new and permanent women's roles in
the workplace. »
-- Gary Evans
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« Films such as Wings on Her Shoulders (1943) and Proudly She Marches (1943) portrayed the participation of women in the armed forces in positive terms but also depicted the situation in not-so-subtle ways that identified women's roles as abnormal, secondary, and temporary. No one voiced this limitation more succinctly than Lorne Greene, in one of his voice-over narrations, when he stated that the 'girls' employed in industrial establishments were finding factory work 'no more difficult than house work.' »
-- David Frank
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Bibliographie sur Wings on Her Shoulder
Brèves parties de thèses
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NASH, Mary Teresa. Images of women in National Film Board of Canada Films During World War II and the Post-War Years (1939-1949), 1983. Thèse de doctorat, McGill University. (pp. 520-530)
[en anglais]
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