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Quebec National Cinema
In
Quebec National Cinema
Bill Marshall tackles the question of the role
cinema plays in Quebec’s view of itself as a nation. Surveying mostly
fictional feature films, Marshall 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. He explores
the faultlines of Quebec identity – its problematic and contradictory
relationship with France, the question of native peoples, the influence
of the cosmopolitan and pluralist city of Montreal, and the encounters
between sexuality, gender, and nation traced and critiqued in women’s
and queer cinemas.
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 Félix Guattari,
Quebec National Cin-
ema
makes a valuable contribution to debates in film studies on na-
tional cinemas and to the burgeoning interest in French studies in the
culture and politics of
la francophonie.
bill marshall
is professor of modern French studies at the Univer-
sity of Glasgow. He has written several books and numerous articles on
film and francophone culture.
© McGill-Queen’s University Press 2001
isbn
0-7735-2103-8 (cloth)
isbn
0-7735-2116-X (paper)
Legal deposit first quarter 2001
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec
Printed in Canada on acid-free paper
Publication of this book has been made possible by a
grant from the International Council for Canadian
Studies through their publication fund.
McGill-Queen’s University Press acknowledges the
financial support of the Government of Canada through
the Book Publishing Industry Development Program
(bpidp) for its activities. It also acknowledges the support
of the Canada Council for the Arts for its publishing
program.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Marshall, Bill
Quebec national cinema
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn
0-7735-2103-8 (bound)
isbn
0-7735-2116-X (pbk.)
1. Motion pictures – Social aspects – Quebec (Province)
2. Nationalism in motion pictures. 3. Motion pictures –
Quebec (Province) – History. I. Title.
pn1993.5.c32q8
2001 791.43′09714
c00-900557-9
This book was typeset by Typo Litho Composition Inc.
in 10/12 Baskerville.
Contents
Preface
ix
1
1 Producing and Envisioning the Nation
2 Foundational Fictions
25
46
3 The Cinema of Modernization
4 Quebec/France
75
103
133
5 Sex and the Nation
6 Auteurism after 1970
7 Popular Cinema
8 Women’s Cinema
172
208
9 The Indigenous Other 239
10 The Immigrant Other
263
285
11 Modernity and Postmodernity
Notes
313
339
Bibliography
Index 359

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