My main areas of research are Canadian and Québécois cinema, screen adaptations of drama, theatricality in cinema and the horror film. I have published ten books, including Stages of Reality: Theatricality in Cinema (2011, with Jeremy Maron),  Denys Arcand’s ‘Le Déclin de l’empire américain’ and ‘Les Invasions barbares’ (2008), Cinema as History: Michel Brault and Modern Quebec (2007) and Canada Exposed (2009, with Pierre Anctil and Christopher Rolfe). I am currently putting together an anthology tentatively entitled Terror of the Soul: Essays on the Canadian Horror Film. I generally teach FILM 2000: “Introduction to Film Theory and Analysis,” as well as various courses on Canadian Cinema, adaptation theory and the horror film. I also appeared as an “expert on zombie movies” in the documentary Zombiemania (2008, Donna Davies) along with Tom Savini and George A. Romero.

Video: excerpt from Zombiemania – why people watch Horror films…

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

“Cinéma du Grand Guignol: Theatricality in the Horror Film,” Stages of Reality: Theatricality in Cinema, eds André Loiselle and Jeremy Maron (Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2012). pp.55-80. PDF version, please click to view: “Loiselle – Cinema du Grand Guignol”

(with Gina Freitag) “Tales of Terror in Québec Popular Cinema: The Rise of the French Language Horror Film since 2000,” The American Review of Canadian Studies. Special Issue: Québec Cinema in the 21st Century,  Vol. 43, No. 2, (June 2013): 190–203. PDF Version, click to view “Freitag and Loiselle. Tales of Terror in Quebec Popular Cinema”

 

“Red and White on the Silver Screen: An Iconography of the Canadian Film,” Communication in Question: Competing Perspectives on Controversial Issues in Communication Studies, eds Joshua Greenberg and Charlene Elliott (Toronto: Nelson Education, 2013), pp.194-201. PDF Version, click to view.

“Popular Genres in Quebec Cinema: The Strange Case of Horror in Film and Television,” How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture, eds. Bart Beaty, Derek Britton, Gloria Filax and Rebecca Sullivan (Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2010), 141-159.www.aupress.ca/books/120167/ebook/99Z_Beaty_et_al-How_Canadians_Communicate.pdf

“Quebec’s ‘Télévision Fantastique’: Horror and National Identity in the Television Series Grande Ourse,” The Nation on Screen: Discourses of the National on Global Television, eds. Enric Castelló, Alexander Dhoest and Hugh O’Donnell (Newcastle upon Tyne [UK]: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), 65-77. PDF article: Quebec’s “Television Fantastique”

“Quebecus Horribilis: Theatricality, the ‘Moment of Horror’ and Quebec’s ‘Satanist’ Cinema.” Nouvelles “Vues” sur le cinéma québécois 8 (winter 2008). http://www.cinema-quebecois.net/pdfs/LoiselleNVCQ8.pdf

“Horreur et dépaysement : l’altérité géographique et médiatique comme source de terreur dans trois adaptations cinématographiques de romans d’épouvante québécois – Le Collectionneur, La Peau blanche et Sur le seuil,” Literature et Cinéma au Québec – 1995-2005. Eds. Carla Fratta and Jean-François Plamondon (Bologna: Pendragon, 2008): 81-92. PDF article: “Horreur et Dépaysement”

To purchase my books, please visit the following off-campus links:

Stages of Reality: Theatricality in Cinema [ click here ]

Canada Exposed [ click here ]

Denys Arcand’s ‘Déclin de l’empire américain’ and ‘Les Invasions barbares’ [ click here ]

Cinema as History: Michel Brault and Modern Quebec [ click here ]

Le Cinéma de Michel Brault, à l’image d’une nation [ click here ]

Stage-Bound: Feature Film Adaptations of Canadian and Quebecois Drama [ click here ]

Michel Brault Oeuvres – Works, 1958 to 1974 (DVD boxset and Book) [ click here ]

Auteur/Provocateur: the films of Denys Arcand [ click here ]

Scream from Silence/Mourir à tue-tête [ click here ]

Self-Portraits: The Cinemas of Canada since telefilm : may be purchased through the Canadian Film Institute, or download a free PDF copy here