Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-234), filmography (pages [235]-238) and index.
Contents:
Index. Jim Leach -- Section I Quebec-Montreal: Time, Space, and Memory in Robert Lepage's Le Confessionnal and Bernard Émond's La Neuvaine / Landscape, trauma, and identity: Simon Lavoie's Le Torrent / Kester Dyer -- Section II-- Yearning for a Pre-Modern Quebec -- Quebec Heritage Film / Liz Czach -- "Nostalgie de la Maison Inconnue": The Ethics of memory in Bernard Émond's Recent Work / Alessandra Pires -- Fingerless (Anti)Christ: A Reminiscence of the Church in 1966 in Denys Arcand's Les Invasions barbares and Éric Tessier's Sur le seuil / André Loiselle -- Section III-- Gendered suffering - Dys-comforts of Home in Quebec Gothic Horror Cinema / Gina Freitag -- Men in pain: Home, nostalgia, and Masculinity in Twenty-First-Century Quebec Film / Amy J. Ransom -- Section IV -- Métropole and Région -- Rural (Re)turns of Young Protagonists in Contemporary Quebec Films / Miléna Santoro -- Return to Abitibi in Bernard Émond's La Donation / Katherine Ann Roberts -- Quebec-Montreal: Time, Space, and Memory in Robert Lepage's Le Confessionnal and Bernard Émond's La Neuvaine / Jim Leach -- Works Cited -- About the Contributors -- Index.
Summary:
"This collection of scholarly essays on contemporary Québécois cinema centres on an image of shared suffering that unites the nation through a search for home. Since the defeat of the pro-sovereigntists in the 1995 Quebec referendum, the loss of a nationalistic vision in the province has led many Québécois to use their ancestral origins to inject meaning into their everyday lives. These essays argue that this phenomenon is observable in Quebec cinema, in which nostalgia denotes a longing for the pleasures of bygone French-Canadian traditions and that underscores the pain associated with the longing for a return home."-- Provided by publisher.
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