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Reframing diaspora cinema : towards a theoretical framework Ghent University
This article reviews how the concept of “diaspora cinema” has featured in academic discourses over the past thirty years, examining its underpinning paradigms. In the wake of a transnational and postcolonial shift within film studies, “diaspora cinema” has been increasingly understood in its imbrication with Third Cinema, postcolonial cinema, transnational cinema, accented cinema, intercultural cinema, cinema of transvergence, etc. While ...
Film policy and the emergence of the cross-cultural: exploring crossover cinema in Flanders (Belgium) Ghent University
With several films taking on a cross-cultural character, a certain U+2018crossover trendU+2019 may be observed within the recent upswing of Flemish cinema (a subdivision of Belgian cinema). This trend is characterized by two major strands: first, migrant and diasporic filmmakers finally seem to be emerging, and second, several filmmakers tend to cross the globe to make their films, hereby minimizing links with Flemish indigenous culture. While ...
Le cinéma pathographique d'Evgueni Youfit : l'humour du stiob carnavalesque et au-delà Ghent University
The article traces playful (Stiobby) cinematic Surrealism of an underground Russian film-director Yevgeny Yufit (1961 - 2016) who was also active as a photographer and painter. He was one of the leading members of the so-called 'Parallel Cinema' Avant-Garde movement of Russia. The article examines Yufit's creative legacy sub specie various comparative phenomena.
Negotiating cinemaU+2019s modernity: strategies of control and audience experiences of cinema in Belgium, 1930s-1960s Ghent University
Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema KU Leuven
Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema explores how contemporary films (2000-2020) participate in the evolution and circulation of images and sounds that in many ways define how indigenous communities are imagined, at a local, regional and global scale. The volume reviews the diversity of portrayals from a chronological, geopolitical, linguistic, epistemic-ontological, transnational and intersectional, paradigm-changing and self-representational ...
De constructie van een nationale cinema : een onderzoek naar de rol van het filmproductiebeleid in het stimuleren van een Vlaamse identiteit (1964-2002) Ghent University
The role of the official film production policy in stimulating a Flemish identity forms the central research question of this dissertation. The research project examines the period that starts in 1964, when a selective and culturally inspired support mechanism for feature films was introduced in Flanders, and runs until 2002, when the support system was structurally renewed. Within the field of nationalism studies, this dissertation contributes ...
New perspectives on early cinema history : concepts, approaches, audiences Ghent University
Volume on new perspectives on new cinema history
In this book, editors Mario Slugan and Daniël Biltereyst present a theoretical reconceptualization of early cinema. To do so, they highlight the latest methods and tools for analysis, and cast new light on the experience of early cinema through the application of these concepts and methods. The international host of contributors evaluate examples of early cinema across the globe, ...
In this book, editors Mario Slugan and Daniël Biltereyst present a theoretical reconceptualization of early cinema. To do so, they highlight the latest methods and tools for analysis, and cast new light on the experience of early cinema through the application of these concepts and methods. The international host of contributors evaluate examples of early cinema across the globe, ...