Archives de l’auteur :  Jesse J. Leonard

Ce texte a été publié initialement le 27 juin 2020 sur vsualcultureweekly.wordpress.com. La semaine dernière, le député du Bloc québécois Alain Therrien a rejeté une motion demandant au gouvernement d’agir pour lutter contre le racisme systémique au sein de la GRC proposée par le chef du Nouveau Parti démocratique, Jagmeet Singh. Therrien a ensuite fait unPoursuivre la lecture de « Qui a le droit de regarder le Québec ? »

Originally published on visualcultureweekly.wordpress.com on June 27, 2020. Last week, Bloc Québécois MP Alain Therrien rejected a motion asking Parliament to tackle systemic racism within the RCMP proposed by the leader of the New Democratic Party Jagmeet Singh. Therrien then made a racist gesture towards Singh who in turn called him a racist. Speaker AnthonyPoursuivre la lecture de « Who Has the Right to Look at Québec? »

Originally published on visualcultureweekly.wordpress.com on May 13, 2020. This week, we have seen Québec’s director of public health Dr. Horacio Arruda’s image become increasingly politicized through a series of unorthodox media appearances. Through a variety of visual technologies, Dr. Arruda has shifted from health authority to political symbol. What does this say about the LegaultPoursuivre la lecture de « The Politicization of Dr. Horacio Arruda, Québec’s Public Health Director »

Originally published on visualcultureweekly.wordpress.com on April 24, 2020. As bars and theaters are closed in many parts of the world due to special measures put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19, many entertainers find themselves in a difficult position. These new circumstances mean a dampened nightlife and an abrupt change in revenue streamsPoursuivre la lecture de « Insight: Queer Nightlife Turns to Internet Broadcasting in Times of COVID-19 »

Originally published on visualcultureweekly.wordpress.com on April 7, 2020. An exceptional address to the nation was released Sunday by Buckingham Palace and it was yet another reminder of the extreme audiovisual sophistication and intelligence of the Queen’s broadcasts. A rare event, the message focusing on the current COVID-19 pandemic affecting the world was only the fourthPoursuivre la lecture de « The Audiovisual Language of Queen Elizabeth’s Extraordinary Broadcast »

Originally published on visualcultureweekly.wordpress.com on April 2, 2020.            The polls are in. People are reacting to how their leaders are handling the current pandemic. As the crisis, physical distancing, emergency measures and closed borders drag one, people are starting to react strongly to their governments handling of the situation. As a general rule, most headsPoursuivre la lecture de « Understanding the disparity between Trudeau and Legault’s polling numbers »

Originally published on visualcultureweekly.wordpress.com on March 23, 2020. Current confinement orders around the world have shaken traditional modes of socialization and created new ways of expressing solidarity. As many viral videos show, in Europe they are singing and playing instruments on balconies. In Peru, where a military enforced curfew has been imposed, nightly eruptions ofPoursuivre la lecture de « Visualizing Confinement in La Belle Province »

Originally published on visualcultureweekly.wordpress.com on March 3, 2020. In this special edition of Visual Culture Weekly, we will not be featuring a chosen image representing the past week in Canadian and Québécois visual culture, but rather a series of images we deem to have been overlooked during this past month’s anti-pipeline protest in support ofPoursuivre la lecture de « Four Overlooked Images from Canada’s Anti-Pipeline Protests »

Originally published on visualcultureweekly.wordpress.com on February 19, 2020. For the past few weeks, ads promoted Bell Media streaming service Crave’s French-langue expansion has covered every public and digital advertising space in Québec. The Canadian company is betting a lot of money on their new service in la langue de Molière in hopes of courting new subscribers in aPoursuivre la lecture de « Crave’s French-language ploy for Québécois streaming dominance »

Originally published on visualcultureweekly.wordpress.com on February 9, 2020. In honour of tonight’s Academy Awards and Best Picture hopeful Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, let’s look at one particular moment in the movie that has had a rather surprising impact on visual culture, Chapaguri. Chapaguri, or Ramdon as it has been translated in English, is a dish traditionally consisting ofPoursuivre la lecture de « Chapaguri for the Oscars: What Instant Noodles Can Tell Us About Contemporary Film Marketing »