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Book review: Pornodyssée by Jean-Marc Beausoleil

“Au Québec, le mot le plus souvent recherché sur Pornhub est… « Québec » !” It would be difficult to legitimately object to the premise that pornography has been one of the central and most important aspects of artistic production in Québec since la Révolution tranquille . It was the success of the films de cul of the 1960s and 70s that established a Québécois film market, both at home and internationally, as viable. And many of the province's most significant directors - Carle, Héroux, Arcand, Fournier among them - worked within and against this tendency. There was a wealth of erotic visual art and music also created in that period, providing one of the strongest and most intellectually complex counter-directions to the more generically internationalist art contemporain that attained institutional hegemony in the 1970s and 80s. The complexity and wealth of the erotic material created in those two decades petered out somewhat in those that followed, in no small part thanks