Synoptique has just released their latest issue “Locating the Intimate within the Global: Xavier Dolan, Queer Nations and Québec Cinema” (4.2), another solid publication featuring Concordia Graduate and Doctoral students amongst a host of other scholars! Kudos to the entire Synoptique team and everyone involved in this issue!

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Kester Dyer, Andrée Lafontaine, Fulvia Massimi

“A Boy’s Best Friend is His Mother”: Québec’s Matriarchy and Queer Nationalism in the Cinema of Xavier Dolan
Fulvia Massimi

Les voix queers dans Mommy de Xavier Dolan
Jason R. D’Aoust

Pouvoir et déclin de l’intime: Films postréférendaires, identité genrées et identité sexuelles
Julie Ravary

Conceptualizing Quebec Cinema: Denys Arcand’s Cycle of Post-Referendum Films as Case Study
David Hanley

Interview with Bill Marshall
Kester Dyer, Andrée Lafontaine, Fulvia Massimi

Lectures croisée et piste réflexions autour de Laurence Anyways: intervention de Christina Brassard, Katrina Sark, Angela Urrea et Mariana Gil-Arboleda
Christina Brassard, Katrina Sark, Mariana Gil-Arboleda, Angela Urrea

The True (Homonational) North, Strong and Free
Clinton Glenn

The Lure of an Ever-Elusive Global Melodrama
Meredith Slifkin

Digging up a Decade: Unearthing the Relevance of 1940s Horror
Justin H. Langlois

Confused Auterism: What has Adoor Gopalakrishnan Got to Do With it?
Parichay Patra

On Heroines, High Heels and Hierarchies: Challenging the 68th Festival de Cannes’ “Year Off”
Bradley Warren

Cinemalaya 2015: A Decade of Philippine Independent Cinema
Adam Szymanski