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List of contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Introduction: Denys of Quebec
Chapter 1: Alone or with others: Arcand and the Quiet Revolution
Chapter 2: Subjective documentaries: Arcand at the NFB
Chapter 3: Dirty money: Arcand's crime films
Chapter 4: Fall and rise: Arcand and the American empire
Chapter 5: Of beauty and death in the digital epoch
Chapter 6: Living in the shadows: Arcand and contemporary Quebec
Filmography
Works cited
Index
About the author
JIM LEACH is professor emeritus in the department of communication, popular culture and film at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of books on filmmakers Alain Tanner and Claude Jutra, as well as British Film and Film in Canada. He has also published a monograph on Doctor Who, co-edited anthologies on Canadian documentary films and heist films, and developed a Canadian edition of an introductory film studies textbook.
Summary
Denys Arcand has been making films in Quebec for nearly sixty years. The Films of Denys Arcand illuminates his films in the context of the massive changes in Quebec society during that period. It explores the work of a major director who has achieved international success and some key issues in film studies and Canadian studies.
