Pitreries nationales : Pousse mais pousse égal, une expérience de modernité vernaculaire québécoise

• Main Author: Sacha Lebel
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Association Française des Enseignants et Chercheurs en Cinéma et Audiovisuel 2017-05-01
• Series: Mise au Point
• Subjects: nation; national history; popular cinema; Quebec comedy; Gilles Latulippe
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/map/2333

This article deals with the cultural presence of comic actor Gilles Latulippe in Quebec during the Quiet Revolution. It focuses on Pousse mais pousse égal, a film neglected in the history of cinema of Quebec, in which Latulippe starred. Despite the actor’s exclusion from a national history of cinema, we seek to understand the part he played in the process of developing a sense of belonging to this "imagined community" that is the Quebec nation. We believe that this popular comedy, sparkling with humour, acted as a catalyst enabling the constitution of a founding culture by proposing an experience of Quebec vernacular modernity.