Quebec Cinema in the 21st Century: Transcending the National Michael Gott 9781802074765

This collection of ten chapters and three original interviews with Quebecois 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 Affames, Tom a la ferme, Uvanga, among others), directors (including Xavier Dolan, Denis Cote, Sophie Desrape, Chloe Robichaud, Jean-Marc Vallee, 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-Helene Cousineau, who provide their views and insights on contemporary Quebec filmmaking.

About the Author
Michael Gott is Professor of French and Film & Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Thibaut Schilt is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the College of the Holy Cross.


Book Information
ISBN 9781802074765
Author Michael Gott
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Liverpool University Press
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Series Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures