The Films of Denys Arcand

by Jim Leach

Denys Arcand is best known outside Canada for three films that were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film: The Decline of the American Empire (1986), Jesus of Montreal (1989), and The Barbarian Invasions (2003), the last of which won the Award. Yet Arcand has been making films since the early 1960s. When he started making films, Quebec was rapidly transforming from a relatively homogeneous community, united...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813598869
• ISBN13: 9780813598864
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"