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Cinema of Pain

On Quebec's Nostalgic Screen

de Liz Czach (éditeur), André Loiselle (éditeur)
Maison d'édition : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
juillet 2020

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Résumé

Since the defeat of the pro-sovereigntists in the 1995 Quebec referendum, the loss of a cohesive nationalistic vision in the province has led many Québécois to use their ancestral origins to inject meaning into their everyday lives. A Cinema of Pain argues that this phenomenon is observable in a pervasive sense of nostalgia in Quebec culture and is especially present in the province’s vibrant but deeply wistful cinema. In Québécois cinema, nostalgia not only denotes a sentimental longing for the bucolic pleasures of bygone French-Canadian traditions, but, as this edited collection suggests, it evokes the etymological sense of the term, which underscores the element of pain (algos) associated with the longing for a return home (nostos).

Whether it is in grandiloquent historical melodramas such as Séraphin: un homme et son péché (Binamé 2002), intimate realist dramas like Tout ce que tu possèdes (Émond 2012), charming art films like C.R.A.Z.Y. (Vallée 2005), or even gory horror movies like Sur le Seuil (Tessier 2003), the contemporary Québécois screen projects an image of shared suffering that unites the nation through a melancholy search for home.

Auteur

  • Liz Czach (Edité par)

    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 others

  • André Loiselle (Edité par)

    André 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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Caractéristiques

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Publication : 28 juillet 2020

Intérieur : Noir & blanc

Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [PDF], Livre numérique eBook [ePub]

Contenu(s) : PDF, ePub

Protection(s) : Marquage social (PDF), Marquage social (ePub)

Taille(s) : 1,67 Mo (PDF), 645 ko (ePub)

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [PDF] : 9781771124348

EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9781771124355

EAN13 (papier) : 9781771124331

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