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

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• nation
• national history
• popular cinema
• Quebec comedy
• Gilles Latulippe