FILM 3209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Culture Of Quebec, Jacob Tierney, Philippe Falardeau
20 Nov 2017
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Lecture 10 quebec national cinema and the cultural communities. > backlash: multiculturalism less accepted in quebec, often seen as an attempt to make french-speaking quebecers another ethnic minority than one of canada"s two nations . Quebec cinema: 1990s: average 4-5% if quebec box office = local films, 2000-2010s: 15-20, 2011: 10% (monsieur lazhar period, now: back to 4-5, does not include all films made in quebec (excludes english-language films, first. The films the people of quebec flocked to see in the nineties showed a nation of white, French-speaking, middle-class bons vivants who had lost all interest (if they ever had any to begin with) in the other. loiselle, p. 152: 1990s: nostalgia and ancestry became a focus, post-1995, retreat into past (period films, biopics). Often unhappy period but social solidarity in the face of oppression, idealized version of the quebecois: move away from montreal and into small towns (often white and francophone). Quebec: films set outside quebec, mid-2000s: films by immigrants.
