Cinema of pain : on Quebec's nostalgic screen

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    Contributor:

    Czach, Liz

    ,

    Loiselle, André

    Summary:

    "This collection of scholarly essays on contemporary Québécois cinema centres on an image of shared suffering that unites the nation through a search for home. Since the defeat of the pro-sovereigntists in the 1995 Quebec referendum, the loss of a nationalistic vision in the province has led many Québécois to use their ancestral origins to inject meaning into their everyday lives. These essays argue that this phenomenon is observable in Quebec cinema, in which nostalgia denotes a longing for the pleasures of bygone French-Canadian traditions and that underscores the pain associated with the longing for a return home."--

    Contents:
    • Introduction
    • SECTION I-Indigenous Longings
    • 1 Landscape, Trauma, and Identity: Simon Lavoie's Le Torrent
    • SECTION II-Yearning for a Pre-Modern Quebec
    • 2 The Quebec Heritage Film
    • 3 "La Nostalgie de la maison inconnue": The Ethics of Memory in Bernard Émond's Recent Work
    • 4 Fingerless (Anti)Christ: A Reminiscence of the Church in 1966 in Denys Arcand's Les Invasions barbares and Éric Tessier's Sur le seuil
    • SECTION III-Gendered Suffering
    • 5 The Dys-Comforts of Home in Quebec Gothic Horror Cinema 6 Men in Pain: Home, Nostalgia, and Masculinity in Twenty-First-Century Quebec Film
    • SECTION IV-Métropole & Région
    • 7 The Rural (Re)Turns of Young Protagonists in Contemporary Quebec Films
    • 8 Return to Abitibi in Bernard Émond's La Donation
    • 9 Quebec-Montreal: Time, Space, and Memory in Robert Lepage's Le Confessionnal and Bernard Émond's La Neuvaine
    • Works Cited
    • Contributors
    • Index.
    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Film, television and performing arts, History
    Original Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario , Wilfrid Laurier University Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781771124348

    ,

    1771124342

    ,

    9781771124355

    ,

    1771124350

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DC Contributor

Czach, Liz

Loiselle, André

Abstract

"This collection of scholarly essays on contemporary Québécois cinema centres on an image of shared suffering that unites the nation through a search for home. Since the defeat of the pro-sovereigntists in the 1995 Quebec referendum, the loss of a nationalistic vision in the province has led many Québécois to use their ancestral origins to inject meaning into their everyday lives. These essays argue that this phenomenon is observable in Quebec cinema, in which nostalgia denotes a longing for the pleasures of bygone French-Canadian traditions and that underscores the pain associated with the longing for a return home."--

Genre
Canadian nonfiction
Film, television and performing arts
History
Publisher (Source)

Waterloo, Ontario

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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