This collection of original essays argues that the loss of a cohesive nationalist vision in Quebec, triggered by the loss of the 1995 referendum on sovereignty, has resulted in a pervasive nostalgia that permeates all aspects of Québécois culture. In Québécois cinema, this nostalgia is evoked as the element of pain associated with the longing for a return home.
This collection of original essays argues that the loss of a cohesive nationalist vision in Quebec, triggered by the loss of the 1995 referendum on sovereignty, has resulted in a pervasive nostalgia that permeates all aspects of Québécois culture. In Québécois cinema, this nostalgia is evoked as the element of pain associated with the longing for a return home.
Liz Czach is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. From 1995-2005 she was a programmer of Canadian film at the Toronto International Film Festival. She has contributed essays on Quebec cinema to Transnational Stardom (2013) and Celebrity Cultures in Canada (WLU Press, 2016), among othersAndré Loiselle is Dean of Humanities and teaches film studies at St. Thomas University. His main areas of research are Canadian cinema, theatricality in film and the horror film. He has published over 40 articles and chapters in anthologies, as well as a dozen books, including The Canadian Horror Film (2015, with Gina Freitag).
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction / Liz Czach and André Loiselle SECTION I-Indigenous Longings 1 Landscape, Trauma, and Identity: Simon Lavoie's Le Torrent / Kester Dyer SECTION II-Yearning for a Pre-Modern Quebec 2 The Quebec Heritage Film / Liz Czach 3 "La Nostalgie de la maison inconnue": The Ethics of Memory in Bernard Émond's Recent Work / Alessandra Pires 4 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 5 The Dys-comforts of Home in Quebec Gothic Horror Cinema / Gina Freitag 6 Men in Pain: Home, Nostalgia, and Masculinity in Twenty-First-Century Quebec Film / Amy J. Ransom SECTION IV-Métropole and Région 7 The Rural (Re)Turns of Young Protagonists in Contemporary Quebec Films / Miléna Santoro 8 Return to Abitibi in Bernard Émond's La donation / Katherine Ann Roberts 9 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
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction / Liz Czach and André Loiselle SECTION I-Indigenous Longings 1 Landscape, Trauma, and Identity: Simon Lavoie's Le Torrent / Kester Dyer SECTION II-Yearning for a Pre-Modern Quebec 2 The Quebec Heritage Film / Liz Czach 3 "La Nostalgie de la maison inconnue": The Ethics of Memory in Bernard Émond's Recent Work / Alessandra Pires 4 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 5 The Dys-comforts of Home in Quebec Gothic Horror Cinema / Gina Freitag 6 Men in Pain: Home, Nostalgia, and Masculinity in Twenty-First-Century Quebec Film / Amy J. Ransom SECTION IV-Métropole and Région 7 The Rural (Re)Turns of Young Protagonists in Contemporary Quebec Films / Miléna Santoro 8 Return to Abitibi in Bernard Émond's La donation / Katherine Ann Roberts 9 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
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