Quebec national cinema / Bill Marshall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshall, Bill, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Social aspects--Quebec (Province).

Motion pictures.

Nationalism in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Quebec (Province)--History.

Physical Description:

xi, 371 p., [9] p. of plates : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Félix 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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1 Producing and Envisioning the Nation

2 Foundational Fictions 25

3 The Cinema of Modernization 46

4 Quebec/France 75

5 Sex and the Nation 103

6 Auteurism after 1970 133

7 Popular Cinema 172

8 Women's Cinema 208

9 The Indigenous Other 239

10 The Immigrant Other 263

11 Modernity and Postmodernity 285.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. [339]-358.

ISBN:

1-282-85893-9

9786612858932

0-7735-6876-X

OCLC:

929120704