Quebec Cinema in the 21st Century

Transcending the National

Michael Gott, Thibaut Schilt (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2024
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-80207-476-5 (ISBN)

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This collection of ten chapters and three original interviews with Québécois filmmakers focuses on the past two decades of Quebec cinema and takes an in-depth look at a (primarily) Montreal-based filmmaking industry whose increasingly diverse productions continue to resist the hegemony of Hollywood and to exist as a visible and successful hub of French-language – and ever more multilingual – cinema in North America. This volume picks up where Bill Marshall’s 2001 Quebec National Cinema ends to investigate the inherently global nature of Quebec’s film industry and cinematic output since the beginning of the new millennium. Through their analyses of contemporary films (Une colonie, Avant les rues, Bon cop, bad cop, Les Affamés, Tom à la ferme, Uvanga, among others), directors (including Xavier Dolan, Denis Côté, Sophie Desrape, Chloé Robichaud, Jean-Marc Vallée, and Monia Chokri) and genres (such as the buddy comedy and the zombie film), our authors examine the growing tension between Quebec cinema as a “national cinema” and as an art form that reflects the transnationalism of today’s world, a new form of fluidity of individual experiences, and an increasing on-screen presence of Indigenous subjects, both within and outside the borders of the province. The book concludes with specially conducted interviews with filmmakers Denis Chouinard, Bachir Bensadekk, and Marie-Hélène Cousineau, who provide their views and insights on contemporary Quebec filmmaking.

Michael Gott is Professor of French and Film & Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Thibaut Schilt is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the College of the Holy Cross.

Introduction - Michael Gott and Thibaut Schilt

PART I: (Re)definitions

Chapter 1 - Michael Gott: Drawing Outside the Lines: Re-bordering the World of Quebec Cinema

Chapter 2: Karine Bertrand: Arnait Video Productions and the Fictional Work of the Inuit/Québécois Collective

Chapter 3 - Ylenia Olibet: Chloé Robichaud and Sophie Deraspe: Women Auteurs on the International Film Festival Circuit

PART II: Trends & Genres

Chapter 4 - Julie-Françoise Tolliver: Around the Fire: Contemporary Québécois Cinema and the Endangered Forest

Chapter 5 - Stéfany Boisvert: “Buddies” to the Rescue: The Transnational Redefinition of Quebec Popular Cinema in the 21st Century

Chapter 6 - Bill Marshall: Genre Cinema and Colonialism: First Nations Meet Zombies

PART III: Case Studies

Chapter 7 - Gemma King: Between Montreal and Los Angeles: Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces in the Transnational Cinemas of Jean-Marc Vallée and Denis Villeneuve

Chapter 8 - Thibaut Schilt: Denis Côté on the Road from Radisson to Locarno

Chapter 9 - Mercédès Baillargeon: Impossible Queerness in Three Transnational Films by Xavier Dolan

Chapter 10 - Loïc Bourdeau and Peadar Kearney: Exploring and Transcending Québécité in Xavier Dolan’s Matthias & Maxime and Monia Chokri’s La femme de mon frère

Interviews

From Film School to the Big Screen: the “Quebec Label” in the 21st Century - An Interview with Denis Chouinard - By Michael Gott

Transnationalism and the Québécois film industry: An interview with Bachir Bensaddek - By Kirsten Smith

An Interview with Marie-Hélène Cousineau on the Arnait Trilogy - By Karine Bertrand

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures ; 94
Zusatzinfo	22 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-80207-476-7 / 1802074767
ISBN-13	978-1-80207-476-5 / 9781802074765
Zustand	Neuware