Overview

This collection of ten chapters and three original interviews with Québécois filmmakers focuses on the past two decades of Quebec cinema and takes an in-depth look at a (primarily) Montreal-based filmmaking industry whose increasingly diverse productions continue to resist the hegemony of Hollywood and to exist as a visible and successful hub of French-language – and ever more multilingual – cinema in North America. This volume picks up where Bill Marshall’s 2001 Quebec National Cinema ends to investigate the inherently global nature of Quebec’s film industry and cinematic output since the beginning of the new millennium. Through their analyses of contemporary films (Une colonie, Avant les rues, Bon cop, bad cop, Les Affamés, Tom à la ferme, Uvanga, among others), directors (including Xavier Dolan, Denis Côté, Sophie Desrape, Chloé Robichaud, Jean-Marc Vallée, and Monia Chokri) and genres (such as the buddy comedy and the zombie film), our authors examine the growing tension between Quebec cinema as a “national cinema” and as an art form that reflects the transnationalism of today’s world, a new form of fluidity of individual experiences, and an increasing on-screen presence of Indigenous subjects, both within and outside the borders of the province. The book concludes with specially conducted interviews with filmmakers Denis Chouinard, Bachir Bensadekk, and Marie-Hélène Cousineau, who provide their views and insights on contemporary Quebec filmmaking.

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Author:   Michael Gott ,  Thibaut Schilt
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
Volume:   95
ISBN:  

9781805965626

ISBN 10:   180596562
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   03 February 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Michael Gott and Thibaut Schilt PART I: (Re)definitions Chapter 1 - Michael Gott: Drawing Outside the Lines: Re-bordering the World of Quebec Cinema Chapter 2: Karine Bertrand: Arnait Video Productions and the Fictional Work of the Inuit/Québécois Collective Chapter 3 - Ylenia Olibet: Chloé Robichaud and Sophie Deraspe: Women Auteurs on the International Film Festival Circuit PART II: Trends & Genres Chapter 4 - Julie-Françoise Tolliver: Around the Fire: Contemporary Québécois Cinema and the Endangered Forest Chapter 5 - Stéfany Boisvert: “Buddies” to the Rescue: The Transnational Redefinition of Quebec Popular Cinema in the 21st Century Chapter 6 - Bill Marshall: Genre Cinema and Colonialism: First Nations Meet Zombies PART III: Case Studies Chapter 7 - Gemma King: Between Montreal and Los Angeles: Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces in the Transnational Cinemas of Jean-Marc Vallée and Denis Villeneuve Chapter 8 - Thibaut Schilt: Denis Côté on the Road from Radisson to Locarno Chapter 9 - Mercédès Baillargeon: Impossible Queerness in Three Transnational Films by Xavier Dolan Chapter 10 - Loïc Bourdeau and Peadar Kearney: Exploring and Transcending Québécité in Xavier Dolan’s Matthias & Maxime and Monia Chokri’s La femme de mon frère Interviews From Film School to the Big Screen: the “Quebec Label” in the 21st Century - An Interview with Denis Chouinard - By Michael Gott Transnationalism and the Québécois film industry: An interview with Bachir Bensaddek - By Kirsten Smith An Interview with Marie-Hélène Cousineau on the Arnait Trilogy - By Karine Bertrand

Reviews

‘This exciting and important anthology includes a range of leading scholars who engage in distinct and varied ways with the central premise that since the turn of the millennium Quebec film has changed irreducibly and dramatically as it globalizes and incorporates new generations of directors with diverse perspectives, affiliations and styles of storytelling.' Brenda Longfellow ‘Gott and Schilt have seized the moment to produce an important volume on the diversity and transnationalism of the new century’s productions, bringing together ten scholarly perspectives along with three interviews with directors whose work embodies the theme.’ Miléna Santoro, Nouvelles Vues

Author Information

Michael Gott is Professor of French and Film & Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Thibaut Schilt is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the College of the Holy Cross.

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