The Historical Imaginary by Amy J. Ransom - 9781487560966

University of Toronto Press

The Historical ImaginaryQuebec National Cinema in the Twenty-First Century\nAuthor(s): Amy J. Ransom\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487560966, 978-1487560966\nSynopsis\nSince the year 2000, Quebecs film industry has burgeoned with a parabolic increase in the number of films released and the production of a wide array of film genres. Building on the notion of Quebec national cinema outlined by Bill Marshall, this book analyses French-language fiction features that construct images of the past. \n\n Scholar of Quebec cultural studies, Amy J. Ransom, explains how the studied films participate in the nations historical imaginary, revisiting and revisioning the past for present-day audiences and constructing new sites of memory for twenty-first-century Qubcois viewers. Each chapter examines a film genre explicitly engaged in representing the past: the historical film per se, the historical fantasy, the.