Split Screen: Belgian Cinema and Cultural Identity (Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video)

Mosley, Philip

ISBN 10: 0791447472 / ISBN 13: 9780791447475

Editore: State Univ of New York Pr, 2000

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State University of New York Press [Published Date: 2001]. Hardcover, 251 pp. First printing, (with full number line). Contents include: Belgian Cinema and Cultural Identity; Beginnings to the Coming of Sound; Sound to Liberation 1930-1945; The Postwar Period, 1945-1960; A New Era, 1960-1975; Reaction and Revival, 1975 - ; Belgian . Cinema and the new Europe; Notes Works Cited; Index. Black and white illustrations throughout. In very good condition. Glossy black and white pictorial Paper over Boards have light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing> Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From back cover] 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, Andr? Delvaux, and Chantai Akerman. In surveying the evolution of Belgian cinema fi:om 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.

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• Titolo: Split Screen: Belgian Cinema and Cultural Identity (Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video)
• Editore: State Univ of New York Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0791447472
• ISBN 13: 9780791447475
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Very Good
• Peso: 18 once

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull'autore

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