Francophone Belgian Cinema

(book in English)

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by Jamie Steele

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Belgium

Keywords

Belgium

Publishing date

2020

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Collection

Traditions in World Cinema

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 240 pages • 25 €
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-5963-1

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Book Presentation:
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.

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