Title: Quebec national cinema /
Authors: Marshall, Bill.
Date: 2001
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press,
Physical description: xi, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: P
Abstract: "In Quebec National Cinema Bill Marshall tackles the question of the role cinema plays in Quebec's view of itself as a nation. Surveying mostly fictional feature films, Marshall demonstrates how Quebec cinema has evolved from the innovative direct cinema of the early 1960s into the diverse canvas of popular comedies, glossy co-productions, and reworked auteur cinema of the postmodern 1990s. He explores the faultlines of Quebec identity - its problematic and contradictory relationship with France, the question of native peoples, the influence of the cosmopolitan and pluralist city of Montreal, and the encounters between sexuality, gender, and nation traced and critiqued in women's and queer cinemas.". "In the first comprehensive, theoretically informed work in English on Quebec cinema, Marshall views his subject as neither the assertion of some unproblematic national wholeness nor a random collection of disparate voices that drown out or invalidate the question of nation. Instead, he shows that while the allegory of nation marks Quebec film production, it also leads to a tension between textual and contextual forces, between homogeneity and heterogeneity, and between major and minor modes of being and identity.". "Drawing on a broad framework of theory and particularly indebted to the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Quebec National Cinema makes a valuable contribution to debates in film studies on national cinemas and to the burgeoning interest in French studies in the culture and politics of la francophonie."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Producing and envisioning the nation -- Foundational fictions -- The cinema of modernization -- Quebec/France -- Sex and the nation -- Auteurism after 1970 -- Popular cinema -- Women's cinema -- The indigenous other -- The immigrant other -- Modernity and postmodernity.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Motion pictures--Quebec (Province)--History.; Motion pictures--Québec (Province)--History.; Motion pictures--Social aspects--Quebec (Province).; Motion pictures--Social aspects--Québec (Province); Nationalism in motion pictures.