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Author Steele, Jamie, author

Title Francophone Belgian cinema / Jamie Steele
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series Traditions in world cinema
Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction: Exploring Nationalisms in Belgium, Brussels and Wallonia; Chapter 1: The (francophone) Belgian film ecosystem: trends in production, distribution and exhibition; Chapter 2: 'No Future': social marginalisation, social precariousness and depictions of Seraing in Le gamin au vélo (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2011) and Deux jours, Une nuit (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2014); Chapter 3: 'Stills' and fragmented families: contemplating the private sphere in Joachim Lafosse's Wallonia; Chapter 4: From slag heaps to cliffs: the 'marked' regional landscape in Cages (Olivier Masset-Depasse, 2006); Chapter 5: The francophone Belgian road movie: Eldorado (Bouli Lanners, 2008) and Ultranova (Bouli Lanners, 2005); Chapter 6: Lucas Belvaux's return: the thriller genre and heists in Liège; Conclusion; Works Cited; Filmography
Summary 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
Notes Acknowledgements Introduction: Exploring Nationalisms in Belgium, Brussels and Wallonia Chapter 1: The (francophone) Belgian film ecosystem: trends in production, distribution and exhibition Chapter 2: 'No Future': social marginalisation, social precariousness and depictions of Seraing in Le gamin au vélo (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2011) and Deux jours, Une nuit (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2014) Chapter 3: 'Stills' and fragmented families: contemplating the private sphere in Joachim Lafosse's Wallonia Chapter 4: From slag heaps to cliffs: the 'marked' regional landscape in Cages (Olivier Masset-Depasse, 2006) Chapter 5: The francophone Belgian road movie: Eldorado (Bouli Lanners, 2008) and Ultranova (Bouli Lanners, 2005) Chapter 6: Lucas Belvaux's return: the thriller genre and heists in Liège Conclusion Works Cited Filmography
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Subject Lafosse, Joachim, 1975-
Masset-Depasse, Olivier
Belvaux, Lucas, 1961-
Lanners, Bouli, 1965-
Dardenne, Luc, 1954-
Dardenne, Jean-Pierre, 1951-
Dardenne, Jean-Pierre, 1951-
Dardenne, Luc, 1954-
Motion picture producers and directors -- Belgium
Motion pictures and transnationalism.
Motion picture producers and directors
Motion pictures and transnationalism
Belgium
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781474420778
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