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The New Québécois Cinema: Postmodernism and Globalization Mary Alemany-Galway
This essay will analyze how the theme of globalization's
impact on Québécois identity is portrayed in Andre
Turpin's film Un crabe dans la tête. The films of
the new generation of Québécois filmmakers are particularly
concerned with this theme and Turpin's work is a good place to start
an analysis of this phenomenon. Additionally, postmodern narrative
forms are sometimes used as a way of forwarding the paradoxes and
contradictions of belonging to a proud embattled ethnic minority
in a world where the global has become more important than the national.
In some ways these are postcolonial films as they reflect a reality
where the Quebecois have at last become masters in their own province.
At the same time, globalization has meant a loss of their Québécois
identity for many of its upwardly mobile thirty-something population.
These issues are forwarded in Turpin's film which has been labeled
as the first Generation X Québécois film. It portrays
a generation which, with the freedom of the world at its command,
finds it difficult to care much about a Québécois
identity that it takes for granted.The love of open spaces, the
attraction of the void, and the desire to lose oneself find their
culmination in the film's male protagonist who evinces a very mobile
psychological profile. At the same time there is a pull, for these
young people, back to their land and their roots, which often becomes
associated with the process of assuming adult responsibility.. >>>>>
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