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Film Studies: National Cinemas

This guide highlights selected resources for various national cinemas.
  • Introduction
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  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Benelux
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  • Canada
    • Quebec
  • Caribbean area
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Internet resource(s)

  • Montréal Film and Television Commission logo
    Bureau du cinéma et de la télévision de Montréal/Montréal Film and Television Commission
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    The Montréal Film and Television Commission accompanies in many ways producers who consider Montréal as a filming location. ...
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    Québec Film & Television Council
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    The Québec Film and Television Council (QFTC) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to contribute to the development and competitivity of Québec as a world-class film and television production centre. ...

Keeping up with Film Studies journal literature

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Introduction to film in the province of Quebec

Filmmakers from Quebec have often been directly involved in wider trends and movements as a distinct national cinema developed within Canada, yet many have also sought to establish an independent and distinct form of French-language film culture specific to their region. An early intervention, resulting from the strength and influence of Catholicism, was the insistence on a stricter censorship code governing film exhibition in Quebec. The demand for recognition of Quebec’s cultural, religious, and linguistic separateness became particularly pronounced in the late 1950s, leading to the révolution tranquille, or quiet revolution, during which Quebec demanded greater autonomy. Emulating wider struggles with the federal government during this period, Quebecois filmmakers sought to persuade the National Film Board (Office National du Film, or ONF) to fund a separate but parallel studio. After nearly a decade of piecemeal change, an independent Francophone section was officially sanctioned in 1964. Many of the films made by the ONF, including Les raquetteurs/The Snowshoers (Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx, 1958) and Pour la suite du monde/For Those Who Will Follow (Pierre Perrault, 1963), focused on specific cultural and geographical experiences, and the question of national identity; and, as the struggle for autonomy continued through the 1970s, often adopted an explicitly political agenda based on class struggle; in this context Anne Claire Poirier’s documentary film De mère en fille/Mother to be (1968) was the first to be directed by a French-Canadian woman. The documentary film movement was a key arena of agitation, with Denys Arcand’s account of exploitative labour practices, On est au coton/Cotton Mill, Treadmill (1970), banned by the federal government until 1976. The work of Perrault and Brault was internationally significant as a distinct form of documentary, that interacted with the development of cinéma vérité in France (Brault was cameraman on Jean Rouch’s seminal Chronique d’un été/Chronicle of a Summer (1961)) (see also politics and film). Feature film production proved more difficult: a number of films co-produced with France were released, including the internationally successful Mon oncle Antoine/My Uncle Antoine (Claude Jutra, 1971), La mort d’un bûcheron/The Death of a Lumberjack (1972), and L’ange et la femme/The Angel and the Woman (1977), the latter two directed by Gilles Carle and starring Carole Laure. Feminist pioneer filmmakers from the 1970s, including Poirier, Paule Baillargeon, and Mireille Dansereau, paved the way for significant women directors of the 1980s such as Micheline Lanctôt and Léa Pool. Denys Arcand made the transition from ONF documentary making to feature film production, and with the critical success of Gina (1975), Le déclin de l’empire Américain/The Decline of the American Empire (1986), and Jésus de Montréal (1989) quickly became one of Quebec’s, and Canada’s, best-known directors. During this period Francis Mankiewicz, Jean Beaudin, and Jean Claude Lauzon also made significant films, as did renowned Quebecois auteur Robert Morin.

In the contemporary period, the work of Robert Lepage attracts international recognition and commercial success, and a number of successful French-Canadian directors, including Xavier Dolan, Philippe Falardeau, Philippe Lesage, Jean-Marc Vallée, and Denis Villeneuve, have also worked in the US film and television industry, the latter winning critical acclaim for Arrival (2016) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). Louise Archambault, Manon Briand, Lyne Charlebois, and Catherine Martin continue Quebec’s strong tradition of female filmmaking. More recently, Quebec has sought to establish international links, setting up the Association Trophées Francophones du Cinéma (or ATFciné) in 2012; chaired by Mauritanian film director Abderrahmane Sissako and based in Montreal (and Paris), the Association seeks to promote the work of Francophone filmmakers worldwide. Kim Nguyen’s French- and Lingala-language Canadian film Rebelle/War Witch (2012), shot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is indicative. From 2017 Quebec’s tax credit scheme was made more generous, attracting US runaway production, with particular support for virtual reality, with this and other new media technologies a key specialism of Montreal’s production and post-production houses.

Kuhn, A., & Westwell, G. (2020). Quebec, film in. In A Dictionary of Film Studies. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 17 Aug. 2022

In the library's collections/Searching the online catalog

You can use the subject heading below to find resources in the online catalog. The call number range is also included. These can be found on Baker Stack Level 4.

  • motion pictures quebec (province)
    call number range PN 1993.5 .C2 on Baker Stacks Level 4.
  • motion pictures quebec (province) history
  • quebec (province) in motion pictures
  • motion picture producers and directors quebec (province)
  • motion pictures canada
    call number range PN 1993.5 .C2 on Baker Stacks Level 4.
  • motion pictures canada history

Introductory reading(s)

  • Cover ArtCinema of pain: on Quebec's nostalgic screen by Liz Czach; André Loiselle, eds.
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781771124331
    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). ...
  • Cover ArtThe cinema of Quebec: masters in their own house by Janis L. Pallister
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .C2 P27 1995
    ISBN: 9780838635629
    This book treats the film production of Quebec from an historico-aesthetic perspective, including a full discussion of all major films--women's films, films about Quebecois history and politics, and films about the society. A lengthy annotated bibliography completes the book, the only one of its kind available in English.
  • Cover ArtLe cinéma au Québec: tradition et modernité by Stéphane-Albert Boulais
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .C2 C525 2006
    ISBN: 9782762126372
  • Cover ArtThe Oxford handbook of Canadian cinema by Janine Marchessault; Will Straw, eds.
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    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780190229108
    The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema offers an overview of the current state of thinking around Canadian cinema. The volume was conceived to register the variety of voices expressing themselves within Canadian cinema with special attention paid to Indigenous, Quebecois, and diasporic identities. ...
  • Cover artQuebec national cinema by Bill Marshall
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1933.5 .C2 M27 2001
    ISBN: 9780773521162
    In the first comprehensive, theoretically informed work in English on Quebec cinema, Marshall views his subject as neither the assertion of some unproblematic national wholeness nor a random collection of disparate voices that drown out or invalidate the question of nation. Instead, he shows that while the allegory of nation marks Quebec film production it also leads to a tension between textual and contextual forces, between homogeneity and heterogeneity, and between major and minor modes of being and identity. Drawing on a broad framework of theory and particularly indebted to the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Quebec National Cinema makes a valuable contribution to debates in film studies on national cinemas and to the burgeoning interest in French studies in the culture and politics of la francophonie.

Selected book titles

  • Cover ArtClaude Jutra: filmmaker by Jim Leach
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1998.3 .J88 L43 1999
    ISBN: 9780773520059
    Through close readings of Jutra's major films, Jim Leach analyses their distinctive cinematic qualities and discusses the responses they have received from reviewers and critics. He focuses both on the films and the historical and cultural contexts in which they were made, arguing that critics have frequently used inappropriate criteria to judge them and that these misunderstandings reveal much about attitudes to Canadian cinema in general. ...
  • Cover ArtCrosscurrents: how film policy developed in Quebec, 1960-1983 by Constance Dilley
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9782760549395
    Crosscurrents: How Film Policy Developed in Quebec 1960-1983 documents the fight by filmmakers in Quebec for a film policy that would support their ambition to create commercial feature films. In the process, it explores the history of Quebec cinema, charting how the government supports that exist today came into existence through an intense lobbying effort on the part of filmmakers. ...
  • Cover ArtScreening Quebec: Québécois moving images, national identity, and the public sphere by Scott MacKenzie
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .C2 M23 2004
    ISBN: 9780719063961
    Screening Quebec explores the connections between Quebecois image-making practices, national identity and the possibility of film, television and video functioning as the site of an alternative public sphere.
  • Cover artStage-bound: feature film adaptations of Canadian and Québécois drama by André Loiselle; André Loiselle
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1997.85 .L65 2003
    ISBN: 9780773526105
    Since the 1990s many of Canada's best-known filmmakers, such as Denys Arcand, John Greyson and Robert Lepage, have looked to the stage for inspiration. While feature-film adaptations of Canadian plays have become increasingly common, the practice of turning drama into film began in Canada in 1942 when Hilda Hooke Smith's Here Will I Nest was brought to the screen. Some adaptations, such as Wedding in White and Being at Home with Claude, enjoyed a fair measure of success; others, such as Me and Les Celebrations, have fallen into oblivion. ...

Other library resource(s)

  • Canadian cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Alanna Thain
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    Canadian cinema began with the June 1896 screenings of the Lumière Cinematograph in Montreal. Early cinema was marked by an uneven balance between Canadian pioneers—for example, Nell Shipman, actress, director, producer, and writer of hits such as Back to God’s Country; or Léo-Ernest Ouimet, producer of hundreds of short films and founder of one of the world’s first motion picture theaters—and the dominance of production and distribution by foreign interests, above all American.
  • Resource logoCanadian film industry from Media History Digital Library by Paul Moore, Jessica Whitehead, and Louis Pelletier
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The MHDL's Canadian collection encompasses domestically produced periodicals from the 1910s to the 2000s. This collection highlights exhibition rather than fandom or film production, with a focus especially on media industry trade periodicals of national scope based in Toronto and published in English. Also included are a significant collection of house publications of Famous Players Ltd., the predominant national cinema chain, and French-language fan magazines that give a glimpse at the distinctive francophone film culture in Québec. ...

Finding scholarly articles and journals

You can find scholarly literature for film and television studies in a variety of journals. However, if you want to do targeted searching, you can use a subject specific database such as Film & Television Literature Index. You can also use the search box at the top of the page.

  • Cinema Canada
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Oversize PN 1993.5 .C2 C5 nos.1-168 1972-89
  • Resource logoFilm & television literature index
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This index covers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television. About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
  • Resource logoScreen studies collection by ProQuest
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    A comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed filmographies. This collection includes the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute (AFI) and the British Film Institute.
  • Resource logoThe web of science citation databases by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.

Selected movie titles

  • Movie poster artC.R.A.Z.Y. by Jean-Marc Vallée
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #5729
    One of five brothers, Zachary begins life on a charmed note: born in Montreal on Christmas, he almost dies but miraculously pulls through. His hard-working father seems to favor him. That is until his dad detects there's something a little queer about the boy. Indeed, Zac shows even more queer signs come adolescence, aping David Bowie's glam looks and sexually experimenting with a boy from the neighborhood. Ultimately, dad's conservative, macho values force Zac to repress his sexuality, which develops into a destructive rage.
  • Cover ArtCongorama by Philippe Falardeau
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #13422
    ISBN: 9781565807426
    When Michel, an uninspired inventor from Belgium who trades on the success of his father, discovers he is adopted, he sets off to find his birth parents in Canada under the guise of selling one of his pointless inventions.
  • Cover ArtLa grande séduction = Seducing Dr. Lewis by Jean-François Pouliot
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #7643
    ISBN: 9780794205416
    St. Marie-La-Mauderne is a tiny fishing village in Quebec. For eight years the locals have stood in line for weekly welfare checks, remembering the good old days when the catch was good. A small company wants to build a factory on the island, but only if a full-time doctor lives in St. Marie. The situation seems hopeless until a young doctor in Montreal has an unfortunate incident with a traffic cop and finds himself on a boat to the faraway village. In order to convince Dr. Lewis to stay, the town resorts to just a bit of seductive subterfuge.
  • Movie poster artNanook of the North: a story of life and love in the actual Arctic by Robert Joseph Flaherty
    • Video
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Streaming video
    Robert Flaherty made this wonderful film of Eskimo (Inuit) life following six years as an Arctic explorer for the Canadian Northern Railway. Flaherty seized upon the idea of structuring his movie around characters who reenacted episodes of their lives and participated in the shaping of the film. He was not trained as an anthropologist, but Flaherty wisely guides our discovery of the people and their activities, and ninety years later, Nanook of the North remains as completely engaging as it was in 1922, a huge influence on many ethnographic films that followed. This edition is mastered in high definition at the visually correct speed from the painstaking 35mm restoration of 1972, with a lovely orchestral score composed, compiled and conducted by Timothy Brock
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