Francophone Belgian Cinema / / Jamie Steele.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Steele, Jamie,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Traditions in World Cinema : TWC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 24 B/W illustrations

Considers transnational, national and regional concepts within contemporary francophone Belgian cinemaFrancophone 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 featuresAn industrial and representational analysis of films produced in Wallonia since the early 2000sIncludes 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 LannersProvides a new outlook on European film cultures and cinemas from small nations that share linguistic partners

Table of 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