Francophone Belgian Cinema

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de Jamie Steele

Type

Studies

Sujet

Countries > Belgium

Mots Clés

Belgium

Année d'édition

2019

Editeur

Edinburgh University Press

Collection

Traditions in World Cinema

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Hardcover • 240 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-2076-1

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Description de l'ouvrage:
Considers transnational, national and regional concepts within contemporary francophone Belgian cinema

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. Alongside the Dardenne brothers, this book considers four promising Francophone Belgian filmmakers who have received limited critical attention in academic publications on contemporary European cinema: Joachim Lafosse, Olivier Masset-Depasse, Lucas Belvaux and Bouli Lanners. Exploring these filmmakers’ themes of post-industrialism, paternalism, the fractured nuclear family and spatial dynamics, as well as their work in the more commercial road movie and polar genres, Jamie Steele analyses their stylistic continuities and filiation. This is complemented by an analysis of how the industrial aspects of film production, distribution and exhibition contribute to the creation of both a regional and transnational cinema.

Key features
• An industrial and representational analysis of films produced in Wallonia since the early 2000s
• Includes detailed case studies of five key filmmakers to emerge from Belgium and Wallonia: the Dardenne brothers; Joachim Lafosse; Olivier Masset-Depasse; Lucas Belvaux; and Bouli Lanners
• Provides a new outlook on European film cultures and cinemas from small nations that share linguistic partners

À propos de l'auteur :
Jamie Steele is Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Bath Spa University. He is the author of Francophone Belgian Cinema (EUP, 2019).

Revue de Presse:
Francophone Belgian Cinema offers a compelling study of the intersections and overlapping of the regional, the global, and the transnational through the optic of the contemporary French-language Belgian film industry. Steele skillfully combines an impressively researched industrial study with attentive close readings of selected works by the best-known francophone Belgian directors, from the Dardenne brothers to Bouli Lanners. The book fills a major gap in scholarship on francophone Belgian cinema and insightfully contributes to a growing body of work on regional and transnational French-language cinematic productions.– Professor Michael Gott, University of Cincinnati

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