Projects
Spectacle culture. An interdisciplinary platform for historical research into film, theater, dance and music performance. KU Leuven
The Scientific Research Community (WOG) "Spectacle culture" wants to bring a trend break in this area. Apart from institutions and disciplines, scientists come together to compare their current research on cultural culture in terms of content and methodology, to sketch a state of affairs, but also to develop new research hypotheses or questions.
Rubens in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: The Oeuvre of Peter Paul Rubens in Illustrated Art Books, Film and Television (1877-1977). Ghent University
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is one of the most canonised and reproduced artist in (Belgian) art
history. Through his own reproduction atelier, printed copies of his work already circulated widely
in Europe during his life. However, the number of Rubens reproductions exploded once
mechanical reproduction techniques developed and this phenomenon reached its first apex
around the 300th Rubens anniversary celebrations in ...
Cultures of Spectacle. An interdisciplinary platform for historical research on film, theatre, dance and musical performance. University of Antwerp
Cities of concrete: literature, film and urbanization in the Franco period (1939-1975). University of Antwerp
Cinema Ecosystem (CINECOS): an open access data platform for cinema history in Flanders and Belgium Ghent University
CINECOS will develop an open access platform for sharing, enriching, analysing and sustaining data on cinema history in Flanders and Belgium from 1896 onwards. Integrating 14 existing datasets covering key aspects of production, distribution, exhibition, programming, censorship and reception, the CINECOS platform will significantly improve the understanding and further exploration of cinema as a dominant public entertainment industry and as ...
The Belgian Silvering Screen: A multi-method research project on ageist discourses and representations in Belgian cinema (1945-2022) Ghent University
Research on mediated representations of age, old age and audience’s experiences around old age is still scarce. Nevertheless, there is a growing number of representations of older people in media (cf. film, TV shows, advertisements, etc.). Existing research on ageism frequently illuminates the topic from a focus on TV series and news articles. Much less research is done on film, despite the medium's wide reach and popularity. Given Belgium's ...
Marcel Broodthaers and cinema. University of Antwerp
Expiring rhetoric: expression theory in the Anglo-American academy and its discursive context, 1880s-1920s. KU Leuven
This PhD dissertation investigates the relationship between literature and rhetoric in the Anglo-American world in the period between 1900 and 1940. It challenges the critical narrative, engendered in the modernist period itself, about the anti-rhetorical stance of modernist literature and modernist writers. The prevailing account of the modernist movement is that it rebelled against the literary conventions of the past, revolutionized poetic ...