List of figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Film and Video Work by Xavier Dolan; Introduction, Andrée Lafontaine; Part I: Queer Universalism; 1: The Transgressive Cinema of Xavier Dolan, Fulvia Massimi; 2: The Dolandrama: Queer Male Authorship and the Fabulous Leading Lady, Julianne Pidduck; 3: Xavier Dolan’s Backward Cinema: Straight Spaces, Queer Temporality, and Genealogical Interruptions in Tom at the Farm and It’s Only the End of the World, Florian Grandena and Pascal Gagné; Part II: Local Auteur; 4: Spaces and Times of Québec in Films by Xavier Dolan, Bill Marshall; 5: Xavier Dolan’s J’ai tué ma mère and Québec’s New Cinema of mise-en-scène, Liz Czach; 6: Transcreating Tom à la ferme and Juste la fin du monde, Marie Pascal; 7: Xavier Dolan in India: The Alchemy of Film Viewing, Navaneetha Mokkil; Part III: Millennial Auteur; 8: Joy, Melancholy, and the Promise of Happiness in Xavier Dolan’s Mommy, Mercédès Baillargeon; 9: “I am Looking for Someone Who Understands My Language and Speaks It”: Dolan’s Excessive Dialogues, Andrée Lafontaine; 10: Fade to Grey: Dolan’s Pop Fashion and Surface Style, Nick Rees-Roberts; Bibliography