Essays on Quebec Cinema

Emerging in the Sixties with the rest of Quebec society from the dark ages of "la survivance," Quebec cinema soon began to incite and reflect a decade of sweeping changes now known as the "Quiet Revolution." Yet where cinema was concerned there was more to overcome than the inertia and limiting perspectives of a now moribund tradition. Squarely in the path of continued development and a heightened desire for authentically quebecois films, lay a formidable movie-making apparatus that had long…