A New Collective Narrative in Quebec Cinema: The Centrality of the Suburb
Between 1965 and 2010, the reference area in Quebec cinema has moved from the central city to the suburbia, or in other words, « urban space » in the cinematic imaginary refers less and less to the city itself. The analysis is based on a corpus of 250 films of Quebec fiction, and has two dimensions. Synchronic analysis reveals that during the period, a general negative representation of the city meets a rather positive portrayal of the suburb. For its part, a diachronic analysis reveals that the movies where the suburb takes the whole place multiply, and that it now appears to be a complex, self-sufficient environment that supports individual memories.