Reinventing Regional Identity in Twenty-First Century Québécois and French Cinema

Wellman, S; Robert, JL

Reinventing Regional Identity in Twenty-First Century Québécois and French Cinema

Wellman, S Robert, JL

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Publisher:: Victoria University of Wellington
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: New Zealand Journal of French Studies, 2014, 35 (1), pp. 29 - 47
Issue Date:: 2014-01

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dc.contributor.author	Wellman, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Robert, JL https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6852-2137	en_US
dc.date.issued	2014-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	New Zealand Journal of French Studies, 2014, 35 (1), pp. 29 - 47	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0110-7380	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	Although rural and regional subjects and settings are well established conventions in both French and French Canadian literature and cinema, recent trends have seen filmmakers return to the rural and regional subject matter that had largely been abandoned in the closing years of the twentieth century. Drawing on, but also distinguishing themselves from their literary and cinematic antecedents, these modern films sought to connect with audiences by reinventing the rural. Using case studies of three filmsÉric Rohmers Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon which sought to recreate Honoré DUrfés seventeenth-century pastoral novel LAstrée, Dany Boons Bienvenue Chez les Chtis and Jean-François Pouliots La grande séductionthis paper argues that contemporary Francophone audiences demand a rural cinema that blends traditions of idealism and idylls with contemporary realities of life in regional France and Quebec.	en_US
dc.publisher	Victoria University of Wellington	en_US
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dc.title	Reinventing Regional Identity in Twenty-First Century Québécois and French Cinema	en_US
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Abstract:

Although rural and regional subjects and settings are well established conventions in both French and French Canadian literature and cinema, recent trends have seen filmmakers return to the rural and regional subject matter that had largely been abandoned in the closing years of the twentieth century. Drawing on, but also distinguishing themselves from their literary and cinematic antecedents, these modern films sought to connect with audiences by reinventing the rural. Using case studies of three filmsÉric Rohmers Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon which sought to recreate Honoré DUrfés seventeenth-century pastoral novel LAstrée, Dany Boons Bienvenue Chez les Chtis and Jean-François Pouliots La grande séductionthis paper argues that contemporary Francophone audiences demand a rural cinema that blends traditions of idealism and idylls with contemporary realities of life in regional France and Quebec.

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