Claude Jutra : filmmaker / Jim Leach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leach, Jim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jutra, Claude, 1930-1986--Criticism and interpretation.

Jutra, Claude.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

xii, 306 p. : ports.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through close readings of Jutra's major films, Jim Leach analyses their distinctive cinematic qualities and discusses the responses they have received from reviewers and critics. He focuses both on the films and the historical and cultural contexts in which they were made, arguing that critics have frequently used inappropriate criteria to judge them and that these misunderstandings reveal much about attitudes to Canadian cinema in general. Jutra's films are shown to reflect the instability of their cinematic and cultural contexts and raise important questions about nationhood. Jutra always identified himself as a separatist and his films were shaped by the rapid changes in Quebec society during the Quiet Revolution and by the political tensions of the sixties and seventies. At the same time his work was often appreciated by English Canadian critics and audiences and was affected by federal film policy and institutions. Although Jutra died in 1986, his films and career still have much to tell us about Canadian cinema and media production, and about the complex cultural contexts that underlie the ongoing debates on Canadian and Quebec nationhood.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

"Je Suis Claude Jutra"

The Precise Image

The Unstable Eye

Phantom of Reality

Useless Beauty

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

Mad Love, Lethal Love

A Happy Film?

Institutional Madness

Missing Fathers

Dreams Of Elsewhere

Conclusion

Filmography

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Film Titles

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Filmography: p. 251-261.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-297) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-85814-9

9786612858147

0-7735-6791-7

OCLC:

929121748