Cinema of Pain - by Liz Czach & Andre Loiselle (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This collection of original essays argues that the loss of a cohesive nationalist vision in Quebec, triggered by the loss of the 1995 referendum on sovereignty, has resulted in a pervasive nostalgia that permeates all aspects of Québécois culture. In Québécois cinema, this nostalgia is evoked as the element of pain associated with the longing for a return home.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>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. <i>A Cinema of Pain</i> 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.</b></p><p> 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).</p> <p>Whether it is in grandiloquent historical melodramas such as <i>Séraphin: un homme et son péché</i> (Binamé 2002), intimate realist dramas like <i>Tout ce que tu possèdes </i>(Émond 2012), charming art films like <i>C.R.A.Z.Y. </i>(Vallée 2005), or even gory horror movies like<i> Sur le Seuil</i> (Tessier 2003), the contemporary Québécois screen projects an image of shared suffering that unites the nation through a melancholy search for home.</p>
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