Francophone Belgian Cinema / Jamie Steele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steele, Jamie, author.

Series:

Traditions in world cinema.

Traditions in world cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors--Belgium.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Motion pictures and transnationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 228 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Francophone Belgian Cinema offers an original critical analysis of filmmaking in an oft-neglected 'national' and regional cinema. The book draws key distinctions between the local, national, small national, regional and transnational frameworks in both representational and industrial terms.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FIGURES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

TRADITIONS IN WORLD CINEMA

INTRODUCTION: REGIONAL/NATIONAL/ TRANSNATIONAL DEBATES IN FRANCOPHONE BELGIAN CINEMA

1. THE (FRANCOPHONE) BELGIAN FILM ECOSYSTEM: TRENDS IN PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION AND EXHIBITION

2. ‘NO FUTURE’: SOCIAL MARGINALISATION, SOCIAL PRECARIOUSNESS AND DEPICTIONS OF SERAING IN LE GAMIN AU VÉLO (JEANPIERRE AND LUC DARDENNE, 2011) AND DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT (JEAN-PIERRE AND LUC DARDENNE, 2014)

3. ‘STILLS’ AND FRAGMENTED FAMILIES: CONTEMPLATING THE PRIVATE SPHERE IN JOACHIM LAFOSSE’S WALLONIA

4. FROM SLAG HEAPS TO CLIFFS: THE ‘MARKED’ REGIONAL LANDSCAPE IN CAGES (OLIVIER MASSET-DEPASSE, 2006)

5. THE FRANCOPHONE BELGIAN ROAD MOVIE: ELDORADO (BOULI LANNERS, 2008) AND ULTRANOVA (BOULI LANNERS, 2005)

6. LUCAS BELVAUX’S RETURN: THE THRILLER GENRE AND HEISTS IN LIÈGE

CONCLUSION

WORKS CITED

FILMS CITED

INDEX

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 May 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-2077-X

OCLC:

1312726853