TRACING THE GOTHIC IN PAUL ALMOND'S ISABEL (1968) AND ACT OF THE HEART (1970)
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MMS X-mas Party!
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MMS X-mas Party!
Instructor: David Hanley | 1 week | Monday, 16/12 | 7-10pm | 4001, rue Berri, # 105
Isabel (Paul Almond, 1968)
A special event, with a lecture by film scholar David Hanley, followed by our annual Xmas party!
Hanley's lecture examines the English-language Quebec films Isabel (1968) and Act of the Heart (1970), both directed by Paul Almond. Neither of these films can be considered horror films, but they contain elements of the gothic often associated with horror, notably a vulnerable heroine lost among ghostly presences and images of decay. One way of understanding Almond's films, and seeing what an anomaly they are within both Quebec and Canadian cinema, is to suggest a parallel between the Irish gothic writers of the 19th Century such as Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, Irish Protestants creating allegories expressing their community's loss of power in the face of a rising Irish Nationalism, and Almond, a Protestant Anglo-Quebecker working in the context of the increasingly nationalistic Quebec of the 1960s
Hanley's lecture examines the English-language Quebec films Isabel (1968) and Act of the Heart (1970), both directed by Paul Almond. Neither of these films can be considered horror films, but they contain elements of the gothic often associated with horror, notably a vulnerable heroine lost among ghostly presences and images of decay. One way of understanding Almond's films, and seeing what an anomaly they are within both Quebec and Canadian cinema, is to suggest a parallel between the Irish gothic writers of the 19th Century such as Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, Irish Protestants creating allegories expressing their community's loss of power in the face of a rising Irish Nationalism, and Almond, a Protestant Anglo-Quebecker working in the context of the increasingly nationalistic Quebec of the 1960s
