Split Screen: Belgian Cinema and Cultural Identity - Couverture souple

Mosley, Philip

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791447480 ISBN 13 : 9780791447482

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2000

Synopsis

Explores the historical evolution of Belgian cinema as well as its contemporary situation within the evolving contexts of global media and European unity.

In presenting the first English language study of Belgian cinema, Split Screen explores the fascinating history of a cinema largely determined by linguistic division and beset by problems of cultural identity. This "split screen" characterizes the Belgian cinema, which has not received the critical praise that it deserves, despite the recent international successes of films like Toto the Hero, and the achievements of individual directors such as Henri Storck, André Delvaux, and Chantal Akerman. In surveying the evolution of Belgian cinema from its beginnings to the present day, Philip Mosley locates all the major feature films, describes the crucial intervention of the state in film production, and reveals undervalued Belgian traditions in documentary, in animation, in short films, and in a colonial cinema created partly by missionaries in the former Belgian Congo. Due to the political and economic transformations affecting Europe, the reforms of the Belgian state, and the increasing globalization of world media industries, Belgian cinema can now inscribe itself within new national and international contexts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Philip Mosley is Associate Professor of English, Communications, and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University-Worthington Scranton.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791447480
• ISBN 13: 9780791447482
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 267
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• Personne responsable: non disponible