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Quebec National Cinema
Bill Marshall
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Description for Quebec National Cinema
Paperback. Tackles the question of the role cinema plays in Quebec's view of itself as a nation. Surveying fictional feature films, this book demonstrates how Quebec cinema has evolved from the innovative direct cinema of the early 1960s into the diverse canvas of popular comedies, glossy co-productions, and reworked auteur cinema of the postmodern 1990s. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBCQ; APF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 636.
In the first comprehensive, theoretically informed work in English on Quebec cinema, Marshall views his subject as neither the assertion of some unproblematic national wholeness nor a random collection of disparate voices that drown out or invalidate the question of nation. Instead, he shows that while the allegory of nation marks Quebec film production it also leads to a tension between textual and contextual forces, between homogeneity and heterogeneity, and between major and minor modes of being and identity. Drawing on a broad framework of theory and particularly indebted to the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Quebec ... Read more
In the first comprehensive, theoretically informed work in English on Quebec cinema, Marshall views his subject as neither the assertion of some unproblematic national wholeness nor a random collection of disparate voices that drown out or invalidate the question of nation. Instead, he shows that while the allegory of nation marks Quebec film production it also leads to a tension between textual and contextual forces, between homogeneity and heterogeneity, and between major and minor modes of being and identity. Drawing on a broad framework of theory and particularly indebted to the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Quebec ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773521162
SKU
V9780773521162
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About Bill Marshall
Bill Marshall is Professor of Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies School of Languages, Cultures & Religions University of Stirling
Reviews for Quebec National Cinema
"Marshall has a very good grasp of Quebec cinema and has thoroughly researched the subject using excellent and up-to-date sources. He brings original and at times critical insights to Quebec cinema, both in his personal observations and his theoretical approach, that open it to new interpretations. This is a serious and impressive work." Pierre Veronneau, author of Histoire du cinema ... Read more