Published in Journal of Chinese Film Studies
This paper introduces soft power as a political construct and thus questions its relevance to cinema. Rather than seeing movies as representatives of soft power in and of themselves, cinema is an instrument whereby soft power is projected – a tool rather than a resource. The paper argues that cinema is an example of “soft power by accident”, meanin...
Published in Journal of Chinese Film Studies
Japanese interests in Chinese cinema go as far back as to the 1910s, when film magazines reported on the situation of Chinese cinema. Discussions of Chinese cinema began to flourish in the 1920s, when intellectuals wrote travelogue essays on Chinese cinema, particularly on Shanghai cinema. In the mid-1930s, more serious analytical discourses were p...
Resumo Nas histórias literárias do Ocidente, a ideia de natureza foi vinculada ao problema do pertencimento. As questões relativas ao espaço originário se desdobram em outras demandas para a crítica literária. Em gestos que tentam encenar questões do pertencimento-não pertencimento ao espaço, os trabalhos de Josely Vianna Baptista e Lucrecia Martel...
This chapter proposes an analysis of Joe Wright’s 2007 film adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement. In particular it looks at how one of the novel’s major theme of storytelling and what Alistair Cormack calls ‘the ethics of fiction’ translates to the cinematic medium. How, it asks, is Briony’s problematic (re)writing of the past in Atonement co...
The seventh art forms an essential part of the students’ daily lives; additionally, it has been asserted that it is a highly advantageous didactic tool for high school foreign language learners. Thus, the purpose of this empirical study is twofold: to explore high school learners’ perception on the didactic exploitation of films in the French class...
In the years following the First World War, Hollywood developed an impressive strategy to conquer the world. How did the tiny kingdom of Belgium fit into this global puzzle? A story about effective distribution, diplomatic backing, appealing pictures, and lots of money. A story about how Hollywood companies conquered Belgium as a market in the inte...
Revenir sur le film Reprise d’Hervé Le Roux (1997) est l’occasion d’interroger les effets d’une mobilisation d’archives audiovisuelles dans le cinéma documentaire d’auteur au côté de figures de style propres à la fiction. Il s’agit d’une part de chercher à expliquer son succès d’audience en regardant du côté de sa capacité à mettre en mouvement la ...
L’objectif principal des concepteurs du dispositif d’éducation à l’image Lycéens et apprentis au cinéma est de réorienter les pratiques et les préférences cinématographiques d’adolescents déjà consommateurs de films vers le modèle du spectateur cinéphile (au sens « savant » du terme). Cependant, il se trouve que, plus que des « experts » du cinéma,...
Cinema Belgica is a platform for sharing, enriching and analysing data on cinema history in Belgium from 1896 onwards. The data itself derives from fourteen existing datasets covering key aspects of film production, distribution, exhibition, programming, censorship, and reception. In 2018, an interuniversity infrastructure project (FWO Hercules) wa...
