Chair 'Navigating in the digital media culture: The audience perspective'

Session "Navigating in the digital media culture: The audience perspective", Copenhage

'I think Catholics didn't go to the cinema': Catholic film exhibition strategies and cinema-going experiences in Belgium, 1930s-1960s

Article on the Belgian Catholics and cinem

Media conglomerates

Literature review on international communciation and media conglomerate

What can we learn from the history of film censorship? Public lecture

Today’s media and communications seem at odds with the idea of censorship. In a digital environment, media appear to be hardly controllable, due to their technological and spatial dimensions, opening new possibilities for a public sphere where freedom of choice and action are relocated into the hands of the user or consumer. Forms of external, top-down, corporate and/or state censorship seem to be replaced by forms of voluntary user-centered control. However, in this so-called post-disciplinary society, there is a renewed interest in traditional models of censorship. Moreover, as this talk on recent studies on film censorship will argue, we can learn a lot from why, where and how censorship emerged and operated

Multiple audiences: revisiting historical film reception

Keynote for the 2013 ECREA Film Studies Conference, Lund, Sweden, 8-9 November 201

Een publieke omroep die verder kijkt dan zichzelf

Article on the state of the public service broadcaster, mainly in relation to its cultural programming

How Hollywood conquered Belgium after the First World War

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 interwar years