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The Films of Denys Arcand / Jim Leach.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Global Film DirectorsPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (218 p.) : 3 b&w images, 11 color imagesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813598901
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.1/8 21
LOC classification:
  • PN2308.A68 L43 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Denys of Quebec -- 1. Alone or with Others: Arcand and the Quiet Revolution -- 2. Subjective Documentaries: Arcand at the NFB -- 3. Dirty Money: Arcand’s Crime Films -- 4. Fall and Rise: Arcand and the American Empire -- 5. Of Beauty and Death in the Digital Epoch -- 6. Living in the Shadows: Arcand and Contemporary Quebec -- Acknowledgments -- Filmography -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Denys Arcand is best known outside Canada for three films that were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film: The Decline of the American Empire (1986), Jesus of Montreal (1989), and The Barbarian Invasions (2003), the last of which won the Award. Yet Arcand has been making films since the early 1960s. When he started making films, Quebec was rapidly transforming from a relatively homogeneous community, united by its Catholic faith and French language and culture, into a more fragmented modern society. The Films of Denys Arcand sheds light on how Arcand addressed the impact of these changes from the 1960s, when the long-drawn-out debate on Quebec's possible separation from the rest of Canada began, to the present, in which the traditional cultural heritage has been further fragmented by the increasing presence of diasporic communities. His career and films offer an ideal case study for exploring the contradictions and tensions that have shaped Quebec cinema and culture in a period of increasing globalization and technological change.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Denys of Quebec -- 1. Alone or with Others: Arcand and the Quiet Revolution -- 2. Subjective Documentaries: Arcand at the NFB -- 3. Dirty Money: Arcand’s Crime Films -- 4. Fall and Rise: Arcand and the American Empire -- 5. Of Beauty and Death in the Digital Epoch -- 6. Living in the Shadows: Arcand and Contemporary Quebec -- Acknowledgments -- Filmography -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Denys Arcand is best known outside Canada for three films that were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film: The Decline of the American Empire (1986), Jesus of Montreal (1989), and The Barbarian Invasions (2003), the last of which won the Award. Yet Arcand has been making films since the early 1960s. When he started making films, Quebec was rapidly transforming from a relatively homogeneous community, united by its Catholic faith and French language and culture, into a more fragmented modern society. The Films of Denys Arcand sheds light on how Arcand addressed the impact of these changes from the 1960s, when the long-drawn-out debate on Quebec's possible separation from the rest of Canada began, to the present, in which the traditional cultural heritage has been further fragmented by the increasing presence of diasporic communities. His career and films offer an ideal case study for exploring the contradictions and tensions that have shaped Quebec cinema and culture in a period of increasing globalization and technological change.

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In English.

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