Quebec Cinema in the 21st Century : Transcending the National / edited by Michael Gott and Thibaut Schilt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gott, Michael, editor.

Schilt, Thibaut, editor.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; Volume 95.

Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures Series ; Volume 95

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Québec (Province).

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Québec (Province)--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.;)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Quebec Cinema in the Twenty-first Century

Place of Publication:

Liverpool, England : Liverpool University Press, [2024]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction (Michael Gott and Thibaut Schilt)

PART I (Re)definitions

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

2 Arnait Video Productions and the Fictional Work of the Inuit/Québécois Collective (Karine Bertrand)

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

PART II Trends and Genres

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

5 "Buddies" to the Rescue: The Transnational Redefinition of Quebec Popular Cinema in the 21st Century (Stéfany Boisvert)

6 Genre Cinema and Colonialism: First Nations Meet Zombies (Bill Marshall)

PART III Case Studies

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

8 Denis Côté on the Road from Radisson to Locarno (Thibaut Schilt)

9 Impossible Queerness in Three Transnational Films by Xavier Dolan (Mercédès Baillargeon)

10 Exploring and Transcending Québécité in Xavier Dolan's Matthias &amp

Maxime and Monia Chokri's La femme de mon frère (Loïc Bourdeau and Peadar Kearney)

Interviews

From Film School to the Big Screen: The "Quebec Label" in the 21st Century - An Interview with Denis Chouinard (Michael Gott)

Transnationalism and the Québécois Film Industry: An Interview with Bachir Bensaddek (Kirsten Smith)

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

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-83553-862-2

1-80207-515-1