Projects
Cinema Located. A study on place, space and social experience of cinema in Ghent (1982-2012) Ghent University
The multiplex celebrated its 30th anniversary, yet very little empirical research has been done on the place, space and experience of cinema culture since its emergence (Hanson, 2007; Klinger, 2006; Acland, 2003). The workings of Hollywood, cross-cultural reception and the Americanisation of the cinema culture in non-American domains have been subject to many critiques (Krämer, 2011; Trumpbour, 2002; Vasey, 1997; Thompson, 1985; Guback, ...
Dialogue for Cinema as Cultural Heritage: Identification, recognition and community-based inventory of cinemas as the intangible cultural heritage in Adana via cross-border dialogue. University of Antwerp
Antwerp Cinema City. A media-historical investigation into the post-war evolution of film exhibition and reception in the city of Antwerp (1945-2010) with a focus on the Rex-group. University of Antwerp
Black Cinemagoing in Interwar New York Ghent University
This project aims to re-construct the experience of cinema-going in black communities of New York during the interwar period. In drawing on a plethora of multidisciplinary resources – personal correspondence, diary entries, cinema records, fan letters, local news stories and articles from historical black press – it will investigate the roles played by cinema, the dominant form of entertainment at the time, in shaping the lives of ...
The war propaganda beyond borders. The activities of the German propaganda services in occupied Belgium and North-France. (1940-1944) KU Leuven
In May-June 1940, the Germans impose to Belgium and North France the same military administration based in Brussel (Militärbefehlshaber in Belgien und Nordfrankreich). This administration depends of the Wehrmacht up until July 1944. Under the direction of the general von Falkenhausen and Eggert Reeder, it set up a propaganda service (Propaganda-Abteilung Belgien or PAB) with its direction in Brussel and local undersections (Antwerp, ...
KOSMOTEKA. University of Antwerp
Cinema Located. A study on place, space and social experience of cinema in Ghent (1982-2012) Ghent University
The goal of this postdoctoral research project is to get an understanding of the working of cinema as a social site, and an amalgam of economic, cultural and political structures through empirical research on the structure of cinema culture and the experience of
moviegoing in the multiplex in Ghent using a variety of methods and a combination of research results.