Philippe Meers
Biographic Data
| ID | 117571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philippe Meers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philippe |
| FAMILY NAME | Meers |
| SIGNATURE | MEERS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6404-7751 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cinema in the Arab World: New Histories, New Approaches
Cinema in the Arab world has been the subject of varied and rigorous studies, but most have focused on films as text, providing in-depth analyses of plot, style, ideologies, or examination of the biographies of prominent directors or actors. This innovative new volume shifts the focus on Arab cinema off-screen, to examine the histories, politics, and conditions of distribution, exhibition, and cinema-going in the Arab world. Through broadening th…
Cosmopolitan imaginary: The reception of Turkish TV series among young audiences in urban, rural, and diasporic settings (Istanbul, Emirdağ, and Brussels)
This study explores the reception of selected melodramas and their cosmopolitan imaginary, based on a large-scale qualitative study consisting of 79 in-depth interviews with young Turkish audiences across three locations: the metropolis Istanbul, the rural town of Emirdağ, and Brussels which has a large Turkish diasporic community. In the past two decades, melodramas representing the upper-class, elite, westernized lifestyles taking place in luxu…
Comparative, Entangled, Parallel and ‘Other’ Cinema Histories. Another Reflection on the Comparative Mode Within New Cinema History
In 2016 we published an article in Alphaville on film studies and the comparative mode. 1 The piece was part of a special issue on cinema heritage in Europe, and it reflected upon the buzz around doing comparative research within New Cinema History. At that time, several large research projects focused upon comparing issues of film programming, cinemagoing experiences and other aspects related to film exhibition across cities. The issue itself wa…
Moving Pictures in Motion: Methods of Geographical Analysis and Visualisation in Comparative Research on Local Film Exhibition Using a Case Study of Brno and Ghent in 1952
In recent years, spatial digital tools have become an important part of New Cinema History research. However, the use of spatial visualisation methods remains inconsistent and the ground norms have yet to be established, especially in a comparative approach. In this paper, we explore the possibilities of working with spatial visualisation: what are the benefits of its use and what new perspectives on a given problem can this approach reveal? Draw…
Film, cinema and reception studies: Revisiting research on audience’s filmic and cinematic experiences
This chapter aims at introducing the reader into the field of film reception studies, more particular into the field which deals with audience’s contemporary and historical filmic and cinematic experiences. After providing an historical overview of this expanding field, the chapter goes into the various strands of cinema and film reception research. The contribution argues that in recent years, this field of research grew into an ever more mature…
Memories of cinemagoing and film experience: An introduction
Over the past two decades, the relationship between cinema and memory has been the object of increasing academic attention, with growing interest in film and cinema as repositories for representing, shaping, (re)creating or indexing forms of individual and collective memory. This Special Issue on memory and the experience of cinemagoing centres on the perspective of cinema users and audiences, focusing on memories of films, cinema and cinemagoing…
Film-viewing in Turkish and Moroccan diasporic families: A gender and place perspective
This article explores the relation between gender identities and spatial aspects of audience reception by means of a case study on film-viewing in the Turkish and Moroccan diasporic communities in the Belgian city of Antwerp. Drawing on feminist and gender approaches to audience reception on the one hand, and research into the spatial dynamics underlying audience reception on the other, we look at film-viewing as a socially and spatially meaningf…
Nollywood online: Between the individual consumption and communal reception of Nigerian films among African diaspora
Various video-on-demand (VOD) platforms streaming Nigerian films have popped up on the Internet since 2011. These VOD platforms facilitate the consumption of Nigerian films among African diaspora. Despite an increasing academic interest for Nollywood audiences, these new modes of viewing Nigerian films online have yet to be explored. In this article, we will therefore give attention to the consumption and reception of Nigerian films on the Intern…
Bollywood tracks towards and through the city: Structural patterns of Hindi film culture in Antwerp (Belgium)
The globalisation of Hindi cinema is a topical issue in current media and film research. Whereas the majority of previous studies on Indian film in diaspora have been concerned with issues of audiences and text, this article concentrates on the structural patterns of Hindi film, specifically in the Belgian city of Antwerp. It is inspired by insights from political economy studies which acknowledge the balance of power and global dynamics from a l…
Pride and popcorn: Consuming the idea of community at film screenings in the Turkish diaspora
A range of studies have revealed the interrelatedness of identity construction, community formation and media among diasporas, mostly focusing on domestic contexts. Seeking to add further nuance to the understanding of the social lives of diasporas, we concentrate on media culture in the public environment of the film theatre. The significance of diasporic film consumption is investigated through a local audience study of Turkish film screenings …
Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies
Social Class, Experiences of Distinction and Cinema in Postwar Ghent
This chapter contains sections titled: Social Class, Pillars, Cinema Spaces of Distinction Distinction on the Screen Experiences of Distinction Conclusion References
The Political Economy of Audiences
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Revisiting the Debates: Schisms, Collaboration, Interconnectedness Audiences from a Political Economy Perspective Conclusion References
The Cinema of Small Nations
The Cinema of Small Nations METTE HJORT and DUNCAN PETRIE (eds) Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2007 vi+205 pp., index, bibliography, £60.00 (cloth), £18.99 (paper) Within the broad field of
Metropolitan vs rural cinemagoing in Flanders, 1925-75
status: Published
European Cinemas in the Television Age
European Cinemas in the Television Age DOROTA OSTROWSKA and GRAHAM ROBERTS (eds) Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2007 xii+192 pp., bibliography, index, £50.00 (cloth), £16.99 (paper) Europea
Is There an Audience in the House
At first sight, the audience might seem an extremely neglected aspect of film research. Many film scholars stress the scarcity of audience studies (e.g., Austin, Barker, Stacey). Others, however, point to the fact that there has always been a certain interest in the film audience, albeit in divergent traditions. In quantitative terms, scholarly research and writing about some dimension of audiences clearly outnumber publications about any other a…
The international telenovela debate and the contra-flow argument: A Reappraisal
Latin American telenovelas are often considered an interesting case in international communication theory and research, illustrating the potential of Third World cultural industries for resistance, alternatives and even contra-flow. In this article we first shed some light on the main theoretical frameworks and empirical arguments in the international telenovela debate. In the second part we focus on the contra-flow argument in relation to the wo…
The international telenovela debate and the contra-flow argument: A Reappraisal
Latin American telenovelas are often considered an interesting case in international communication theory and research, illustrating the potential of Third World cultural industries for resistance, alternatives and even contra-flow. In this article we first shed some light on the main theoretical frameworks and empirical arguments in the international telenovela debate. In the second part we focus on the contra-flow argument in relation to the wo…
Metropolitan vs rural cinemagoing in Flanders, 1925-75
status: Published
Cosmopolitan imaginary: The reception of Turkish TV series among young audiences in urban, rural, and diasporic settings (Istanbul, Emirdağ, and Brussels)
This study explores the reception of selected melodramas and their cosmopolitan imaginary, based on a large-scale qualitative study consisting of 79 in-depth interviews with young Turkish audiences across three locations: the metropolis Istanbul, the rural town of Emirdağ, and Brussels which has a large Turkish diasporic community. In the past two decades, melodramas representing the upper-class, elite, westernized lifestyles taking place in luxu…
Nollywood online: Between the individual consumption and communal reception of Nigerian films among African diaspora
Various video-on-demand (VOD) platforms streaming Nigerian films have popped up on the Internet since 2011. These VOD platforms facilitate the consumption of Nigerian films among African diaspora. Despite an increasing academic interest for Nollywood audiences, these new modes of viewing Nigerian films online have yet to be explored. In this article, we will therefore give attention to the consumption and reception of Nigerian films on the Intern…
Memories of cinemagoing and film experience: An introduction
Over the past two decades, the relationship between cinema and memory has been the object of increasing academic attention, with growing interest in film and cinema as repositories for representing, shaping, (re)creating or indexing forms of individual and collective memory. This Special Issue on memory and the experience of cinemagoing centres on the perspective of cinema users and audiences, focusing on memories of films, cinema and cinemagoing…
Film-viewing in Turkish and Moroccan diasporic families: A gender and place perspective
This article explores the relation between gender identities and spatial aspects of audience reception by means of a case study on film-viewing in the Turkish and Moroccan diasporic communities in the Belgian city of Antwerp. Drawing on feminist and gender approaches to audience reception on the one hand, and research into the spatial dynamics underlying audience reception on the other, we look at film-viewing as a socially and spatially meaningf…
Is There an Audience in the House
At first sight, the audience might seem an extremely neglected aspect of film research. Many film scholars stress the scarcity of audience studies (e.g., Austin, Barker, Stacey). Others, however, point to the fact that there has always been a certain interest in the film audience, albeit in divergent traditions. In quantitative terms, scholarly research and writing about some dimension of audiences clearly outnumber publications about any other a…
The international telenovela debate and the contra-flow argument: A Reappraisal
Latin American telenovelas are often considered an interesting case in international communication theory and research, illustrating the potential of Third World cultural industries for resistance, alternatives and even contra-flow. In this article we first shed some light on the main theoretical frameworks and empirical arguments in the international telenovela debate. In the second part we focus on the contra-flow argument in relation to the wo…
Is There an Audience in the House
At first sight, the audience might seem an extremely neglected aspect of film research. Many film scholars stress the scarcity of audience studies (e.g., Austin, Barker, Stacey). Others, however, point to the fact that there has always been a certain interest in the film audience, albeit in divergent traditions. In quantitative terms, scholarly research and writing about some dimension of audiences clearly outnumber publications about any other a…
European Cinemas in the Television Age
European Cinemas in the Television Age DOROTA OSTROWSKA and GRAHAM ROBERTS (eds) Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2007 xii+192 pp., bibliography, index, £50.00 (cloth), £16.99 (paper) Europea
Metropolitan vs rural cinemagoing in Flanders, 1925-75
status: Published
Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies
Social Class, Experiences of Distinction and Cinema in Postwar Ghent
This chapter contains sections titled: Social Class, Pillars, Cinema Spaces of Distinction Distinction on the Screen Experiences of Distinction Conclusion References
The Political Economy of Audiences
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Revisiting the Debates: Schisms, Collaboration, Interconnectedness Audiences from a Political Economy Perspective Conclusion References
The Cinema of Small Nations
The Cinema of Small Nations METTE HJORT and DUNCAN PETRIE (eds) Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2007 vi+205 pp., index, bibliography, £60.00 (cloth), £18.99 (paper) Within the broad field of
Bollywood tracks towards and through the city: Structural patterns of Hindi film culture in Antwerp (Belgium)
The globalisation of Hindi cinema is a topical issue in current media and film research. Whereas the majority of previous studies on Indian film in diaspora have been concerned with issues of audiences and text, this article concentrates on the structural patterns of Hindi film, specifically in the Belgian city of Antwerp. It is inspired by insights from political economy studies which acknowledge the balance of power and global dynamics from a l…
Pride and popcorn: Consuming the idea of community at film screenings in the Turkish diaspora
A range of studies have revealed the interrelatedness of identity construction, community formation and media among diasporas, mostly focusing on domestic contexts. Seeking to add further nuance to the understanding of the social lives of diasporas, we concentrate on media culture in the public environment of the film theatre. The significance of diasporic film consumption is investigated through a local audience study of Turkish film screenings …
Film-viewing in Turkish and Moroccan diasporic families: A gender and place perspective
This article explores the relation between gender identities and spatial aspects of audience reception by means of a case study on film-viewing in the Turkish and Moroccan diasporic communities in the Belgian city of Antwerp. Drawing on feminist and gender approaches to audience reception on the one hand, and research into the spatial dynamics underlying audience reception on the other, we look at film-viewing as a socially and spatially meaningf…
Nollywood online: Between the individual consumption and communal reception of Nigerian films among African diaspora
Various video-on-demand (VOD) platforms streaming Nigerian films have popped up on the Internet since 2011. These VOD platforms facilitate the consumption of Nigerian films among African diaspora. Despite an increasing academic interest for Nollywood audiences, these new modes of viewing Nigerian films online have yet to be explored. In this article, we will therefore give attention to the consumption and reception of Nigerian films on the Intern…
Memories of cinemagoing and film experience: An introduction
Over the past two decades, the relationship between cinema and memory has been the object of increasing academic attention, with growing interest in film and cinema as repositories for representing, shaping, (re)creating or indexing forms of individual and collective memory. This Special Issue on memory and the experience of cinemagoing centres on the perspective of cinema users and audiences, focusing on memories of films, cinema and cinemagoing…
Film, cinema and reception studies: Revisiting research on audience’s filmic and cinematic experiences
This chapter aims at introducing the reader into the field of film reception studies, more particular into the field which deals with audience’s contemporary and historical filmic and cinematic experiences. After providing an historical overview of this expanding field, the chapter goes into the various strands of cinema and film reception research. The contribution argues that in recent years, this field of research grew into an ever more mature…
Comparative, Entangled, Parallel and ‘Other’ Cinema Histories. Another Reflection on the Comparative Mode Within New Cinema History
In 2016 we published an article in Alphaville on film studies and the comparative mode. 1 The piece was part of a special issue on cinema heritage in Europe, and it reflected upon the buzz around doing comparative research within New Cinema History. At that time, several large research projects focused upon comparing issues of film programming, cinemagoing experiences and other aspects related to film exhibition across cities. The issue itself wa…
Moving Pictures in Motion: Methods of Geographical Analysis and Visualisation in Comparative Research on Local Film Exhibition Using a Case Study of Brno and Ghent in 1952
In recent years, spatial digital tools have become an important part of New Cinema History research. However, the use of spatial visualisation methods remains inconsistent and the ground norms have yet to be established, especially in a comparative approach. In this paper, we explore the possibilities of working with spatial visualisation: what are the benefits of its use and what new perspectives on a given problem can this approach reveal? Draw…
Cinema in the Arab World: New Histories, New Approaches
Cinema in the Arab world has been the subject of varied and rigorous studies, but most have focused on films as text, providing in-depth analyses of plot, style, ideologies, or examination of the biographies of prominent directors or actors. This innovative new volume shifts the focus on Arab cinema off-screen, to examine the histories, politics, and conditions of distribution, exhibition, and cinema-going in the Arab world. Through broadening th…
Cosmopolitan imaginary: The reception of Turkish TV series among young audiences in urban, rural, and diasporic settings (Istanbul, Emirdağ, and Brussels)
This study explores the reception of selected melodramas and their cosmopolitan imaginary, based on a large-scale qualitative study consisting of 79 in-depth interviews with young Turkish audiences across three locations: the metropolis Istanbul, the rural town of Emirdağ, and Brussels which has a large Turkish diasporic community. In the past two decades, melodramas representing the upper-class, elite, westernized lifestyles taking place in luxu…
Art (16 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Movie theater (12 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Visual arts (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (7 works) · Art history (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Film studies (5 works)