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Andre Loiselle
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Bernard Emond
Canadian Cinema
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Female Gothic
Gender in film
Gina Freitag
Heritage film
Images of suffering in film
Indigenous cinema
Jim Leach
Karine Bertrand
Katharine Roberts
Kester Dyer
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Liz Czach
Milena Santoro
Nostalgia in Film
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Quebec Cinema
Quebec History
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Scott MacKenzie
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Trauma in film
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  • ISBN 9781771124331
  • Weight: 408g
  • Dimensions: 147 x 220mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Jul 2020
  • Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
  • Publication City/Country: CA
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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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.
About
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 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).