Transnational Perspectives on Quebec Cinema in the 21st Century

The 2024 collection Quebec Cinema in the 21st Century: Transcending the National explores how the flourishing of Quebec cinema in the 21st century has opened the door to a move in remarkable and diverse new directions. As director and filmmaking professor Denis Chouinard affirms in an interview in the book, many filmmakers in the province have embraced a broad approach to the definition of Quebecois identity since the 1995 referendum. This talk will focus on contemporary Quebec cinema through a transnational optic looking at the diversity of origins, perspectives, and trajectories that inform Quebec's cinematic production today. I'll propose some lingering questions about the parameters of the Quebec label itself and discuss some fruitful ways to explore the question in classes. 

Michael Gott is Professor of Film and Media Studies and French and Head of the Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures at the University of Cincinnati. His research and teaching interests include transnational film and screen media, global screen industries and networks, border studies, mobility studies, diaspora and migration, and the cinema of Quebec.