Denys Arcand and 1980s Canadian Cinema

Note: Pass out Packets and Discuss syllabus

A. Entrance Card:

Describe one of the Movements discussed in detail in the chapter. Include examples to illustrate your explanation of the film movement.

B. Group "Quiz" on chapter 12 and Discussion

C. Canadian Film of the 1980s: the Quebec Auteur (see Wiki Page)

From Syllabus:

Film History overview (from U.S. to world and other Americas). Canadian Independent Films of the 1980s: 


clips from Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983), Strange Brew (1983), (Denys Arcand, 1986), and I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (Patricia Rozene, 1987) 


Entrance Card.


Assignment: Read introduction and one of the film chapters in The Cinema of Latin America and one of the packet readings from Bordwell and Thompson and prepare for EC.