Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Since the defeat of the pro-sovereigntists in the 1995 Quebec referendum, the loss of a cohesive nationalistic vision in the province has led many Qu b cois to use their ancestral origins to inject meaning into their everyday lives.
A Cinema of Pain argues that this phenomenon is observable in a pervasive sense of nostalgia in Quebec culture and is especially present in the province's vibrant but deeply wistful cinema.
In Qu b cois cinema, nostalgia not only denotes a sen.