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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Denuys Arcand has been making films since the early 1960s. When he started making films, Quebec was rapidly transforming from a relatively homogeneous community into a more fragmented modern society. This book sheds light on how Arcand addressed the impact of these changes from the 1960s to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
