Daniel Biltereyst
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 129794 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Daniel Biltereyst |
| NOMBRES | Daniel |
| APELLIDO | Biltereyst |
| FIRMA | BILTEREYST D |
| AFILIACIONES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5954-1547 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 138 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
‘Grands Enfants’, or Potential Rebels? Newsreel Censorship in the Belgian Congo (1952–56)
Discourses of cultural diversity and inclusion in film policy
This article examines how Flemish film policy actors and industry stakeholders have conceptualized, framed and operationalized cultural diversity and inclusion over the past two decades (2002–2022). Drawing on critical discourse and interpretive policy analysis of policy documents and a series of in-depth expert interviews, we investigate how discourses of diversity in cultural policymaking are consistently shaped by (neo-)liberal continuations o…
Cinema in the Arab World
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…
The Alzheimer case
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major health concern as the world population ages. Yet, few studies have examined what the public over the age of 50 knows about AD. This qualitative study, based on 40 in-depth interviews, examines the knowledge of AD by Flemish people between 50 and 80 years old and their cross-source engagement with information sources. Building on AD media representations and theories on media complementarity and health informati…
Health on Wikipedia
Wikipedia is one of the most popular online sources of information on a wide range of topics, including health and medical affairs. While a large body of research examines Wikipedia’s factual accuracy, few studies look at user perceptions and the actual use of the online encyclopaedia. Previous work has mostly explored students’ use of Wikipedia, but little is known about the attitudes of older generations of Internet users towards the online enc…
The nation on and beyond the screen
Most research on the relationship between film and nation‐building focuses on the content of films (the nation on the screen). Much less common is research on the structural organisation of the film sector (the nation beyond the screen). This article argues for a combined focus in order to gain deeper insight into the relationship between film and nation‐building. This is illustrated by a case study focusing on Flanders. The Flemish case shows th…
Mapping Movie Magazines
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
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…
Searching for Health
Objectives: While online health information (OHI) has become ubiquitous, little is known about its use by middle-aged and older adults. This contribution examines the role of OHI and its influence on the patient-physician relationship. Method: This qualitative study reports the thematic analysis of 40 semistructured, in-depth interviews with Flemish middle-aged and older adults between the ages of 50 and 80 years. Results: Middle-aged and older a…
Film, cinema and reception studies
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…
Censoring Tarzan in Belgium
In this article we are concerned with how the Hollywood Tarzan productions of the 1930s and 1940s were received in Belgium, a country with a long and troubling history of colonizing. The MGM Tarzan films were hugely popular but they seldom reached Belgian audiences uncut, due to the practices of the Belgian Board of Film Control. Apart from the obvious downside to this practice of mutilating films, there are some more productive sides to this as …
Reconceptualising Film Policies
Memories of cinemagoing and film experience
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…
Pascal Laborderie. Le Cinéma éducateur laïque / Mélisande Leventopoulos. Les Catholiques et le cinéma
Un développement des plus intéressants dans les études cinématographiques récentes concerne l’exploration de ce qui s’est déroulé en dehors des salles de cinéma commercial. Elle souligne le fait que le cinéma a été bien plus que ce qu’on voyait dans les salles de cinéma habituelles. Bien qu’il demeure intéressant de travailler sur des sujets comme l’idéologie, l’esthétique et la réception des longs métrages, il ne s’agit là que d’une partie de la…
Crisis At The Capitole
This article examines local film culture based on an analysis of actual attendance and revenue figures from the major first-run cinema of Ghent, the Capitole, between 1953 and 1971. Using unique archival material captured in a database containing information on 801 films, this cultural economic analysis explores issues like financial policy, programming strategies and taste patterns in a pivotal period of crisis in the film market. A first analys…
Moralizing Cinema
Catholics, cinema and power: an introduction -- Policies. Resisting the lure of the modern: Catholics, international politics, and the establishment of the International Catholic Office for Cinema (1918-1928) / Guido Convents -- The Roman Catholic Church, cinema and the culture of dialogue: Italian Catholics and the movies after the Second World War / Dario Edoardo Vigan -- The rise and fall of Catholic Hollywood, or from the production code to t…
Silencing Cinema
Oppression by censorship affects the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media. Including essays by leading film historians, the book offers groundbreaking historical research on fil
Cinemagoing as a Conditional Part of Everyday Life
This paper is part of the recent shift within the New Cinema History' from the attention for the film text to a broader consideration of the social and cultural history of cinema. In the last years, research did not only concentrate on the production and meanings of the pictures, but it also saw an increased interest in the distribution, exploitation and consumption of film. Interest for film as a consumable good has come from various disciples s…
Queer Gazing and the Popular
In this chapter, we elaborate on the construction of queer representations in popular television fiction. In spite of the critical and commercial success of “queer” television fiction series (e.g., Queer as Folk , The L Word , Six Feet Under ), queer representations are sometimes still seen as controversial. The aim of this chapter is to obtain a better insight into the social and emancipating role of queer representations in contemporary popular…
Let's talk about sex
Teenage sexual identity is shaped within a complex cultural landscape in which the issue of protecting the ‘innocent’ (children/teens) from sexually suggestive images is high on the public agenda. Intimate relationships and sexuality have entered the public domain and are presented on the screen, offering audiences possible roles to play in reality. Trepidation of teenagers being ‘corrupted’ by sexualised media has urged many scholars to investig…
Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain
Review of Julian Petley's book "Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain
A Newsreel of Our Own’
Overview of the literature on the history of newsreels and other forms of filmed news, situated within theories of globalisation, cultural dominance and local culture
A Clockwork Orange
Book review of "A Clockwork Orange" by Peter Krämer, published by Palgrave Macmillan, Controversies series
The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies
The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies brings together over 175 critical essays to redraw the boundaries of this rapidly evolving and dynamically complex area. Global in scope, wide-ranging in its inclusion of topics, and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars, this is the definitive resource for the field. Includes more than 175 essays written by over 200 leading and emerging scholars from across the globe Arranged…
The international telenovela debate and the contra-flow argument
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…
Resisting American Hegemony
Recent qualitative audience research on the reception of US fiction abroad has been presented as a valuable new perspective in studying the world-wide appeal and impact of American programming. However the concentration on the decoding of US fiction alone (usually Dallas) has stimulated an essential and decontextualized position on these issues. The results from a comparative reception analysis (comparing the reception of an American fiction prog…
The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies
The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies brings together over 175 critical essays to redraw the boundaries of this rapidly evolving and dynamically complex area. Global in scope, wide-ranging in its inclusion of topics, and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars, this is the definitive resource for the field. Includes more than 175 essays written by over 200 leading and emerging scholars from across the globe Arranged…
The X-factor of charity
In our contemporary mediatized societies, philanthropy seems to be part of celebrities’ ontology, while celebrities have become indispensable for the charity industry. This has provoked both negative and positive appraisals, although the specific nature and consequences of celebrities’ involvement remain unclear. This article contributes to these debates by providing a systematic analysis of the roles celebrities play in telethons, which we redef…
Language and Culture as Ultimate Barriers? An Analysis of the Circulation, Consumption and Popularity of Fiction in Small European Countries
Television fiction is traditionally seen as the most problematic programme category with respect to dependency on foreign television material. This is especially true for television stations in Third World and small countries in general. Imported, mostly US, fiction plays a prominent role in the total programming schedule and also appears to enjoy popular success. This combination of material dependency and public approval is now a widely discuss…
Public Service Broadcasting, Popular Entertainment and the Construction of Trust
Studies on the transformiation of pu-blic service broadcasting tend to stress the negative influence of working in a com petitive-multichannel environment and speculate about the loss of a unique identity in terms of civic responsibility. This article criticizes this view for using a perspective rooted in a rational enlightenment ideal; for its usual modernist distrust of popular culture/programnmning; and for failing to theorize public service b…
Glocalized Telenovelas and National Identities
This article examines the globalization of the telenovela format in relation to issues of adaptation, proximities, and national identities. As a case study of glocalized telenovelas, it deals with the domestic adaptation of one of the most popular Latin American telenovelas, Yo soy Betty, la fea (1999-2001), into the “telenovelle” Sara (2007-2008), which takes place in a Belgian (more specifically Flemish) context. Therefore, this article specifi…
Metropolitan vs rural cinemagoing in Flanders, 1925-75
status: Published
Media audiences and the game of controversy
This article looks at the atmosphere of controversy or the perfume of scandal around reality TV. In order to grasp the feeling of controversy, we first look at the social and moral issues treated by reality programmes, where we try to introduce some positions in the overall reality TV debate. In a second step we argue that the controversial nature may reside in the intentional production or simulation of a (possible) moral panic, where we bring i…
Searching for Health
Objectives: While online health information (OHI) has become ubiquitous, little is known about its use by middle-aged and older adults. This contribution examines the role of OHI and its influence on the patient-physician relationship. Method: This qualitative study reports the thematic analysis of 40 semistructured, in-depth interviews with Flemish middle-aged and older adults between the ages of 50 and 80 years. Results: Middle-aged and older a…
Let's talk about sex
Teenage sexual identity is shaped within a complex cultural landscape in which the issue of protecting the ‘innocent’ (children/teens) from sexually suggestive images is high on the public agenda. Intimate relationships and sexuality have entered the public domain and are presented on the screen, offering audiences possible roles to play in reality. Trepidation of teenagers being ‘corrupted’ by sexualised media has urged many scholars to investig…
Attracting the un-served audience
Digital television services not only provide promise for interactive services, but also for long tail-based business models in terms of tailor-made content. As the share of culture in total linear television programming is diminishing owing to the supremacy of audience rating concerns, digital television services could act as an alternative gateway to deliver culture to a wider audience. This article presents the results of a market pilot study u…
Slashing the Fiction of Queer Theory
The popularity of slash fiction, a productive strand of fan fiction in which same-sex television or film characters are subversively made into queer subjects, has grown in recent years. The practice of queer readings, which is about repositioning texts outside the borders of heteronormativity, very much resembles some of the basic premises of queer theory, the post-structural theory that contests strict categorical views on gender and sexuality. …
Qualitative Audience Research and Transnational Media Effects
Some years ago reception analysis and similar types of qualitative audience research had been welcomed as a new `paradigm' in the whole discussion on media meaning, functions and impact. A crucial case, on which several scholars focused, dealt with the issue of the impact of transnational media, emphasizing the active participation of the receiver in the consumption process. These studies have been reconceptualizing existing theories and argument…
The nation on and beyond the screen
Most research on the relationship between film and nation‐building focuses on the content of films (the nation on the screen). Much less common is research on the structural organisation of the film sector (the nation beyond the screen). This article argues for a combined focus in order to gain deeper insight into the relationship between film and nation‐building. This is illustrated by a case study focusing on Flanders. The Flemish case shows th…
Memories of cinemagoing and film experience
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…
Filmed News and Nationalism in Belgium
Article on the use of film by the Flemish Movement in Belgium, more precisely on the filmed news production by Clemens De Landtsheer during the interwar period
The Roman Catholic Church and Film Exhibition In Belgium, 1926-1940
Crisis and Renewal of the Fourth Estate. On the Post-War Development of the Flemish Newspaper Press
Resisting American Hegemony
Recent qualitative audience research on the reception of US fiction abroad has been presented as a valuable new perspective in studying the world-wide appeal and impact of American programming. However the concentration on the decoding of US fiction alone (usually Dallas) has stimulated an essential and decontextualized position on these issues. The results from a comparative reception analysis (comparing the reception of an American fiction prog…
Language and Culture as Ultimate Barriers? An Analysis of the Circulation, Consumption and Popularity of Fiction in Small European Countries
Television fiction is traditionally seen as the most problematic programme category with respect to dependency on foreign television material. This is especially true for television stations in Third World and small countries in general. Imported, mostly US, fiction plays a prominent role in the total programming schedule and also appears to enjoy popular success. This combination of material dependency and public approval is now a widely discuss…
Qualitative Audience Research and Transnational Media Effects
Some years ago reception analysis and similar types of qualitative audience research had been welcomed as a new `paradigm' in the whole discussion on media meaning, functions and impact. A crucial case, on which several scholars focused, dealt with the issue of the impact of transnational media, emphasizing the active participation of the receiver in the consumption process. These studies have been reconceptualizing existing theories and argument…
Crisis and Renewal of the Fourth Estate. On the Post-War Development of the Flemish Newspaper Press
The international telenovela debate and the contra-flow argument
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…
Public Service Broadcasting, Popular Entertainment and the Construction of Trust
Studies on the transformiation of pu-blic service broadcasting tend to stress the negative influence of working in a com petitive-multichannel environment and speculate about the loss of a unique identity in terms of civic responsibility. This article criticizes this view for using a perspective rooted in a rational enlightenment ideal; for its usual modernist distrust of popular culture/programnmning; and for failing to theorize public service b…
Media audiences and the game of controversy
This article looks at the atmosphere of controversy or the perfume of scandal around reality TV. In order to grasp the feeling of controversy, we first look at the social and moral issues treated by reality programmes, where we try to introduce some positions in the overall reality TV debate. In a second step we argue that the controversial nature may reside in the intentional production or simulation of a (possible) moral panic, where we bring i…
The Roman Catholic Church and Film Exhibition In Belgium, 1926-1940
Slashing the Fiction of Queer Theory
The popularity of slash fiction, a productive strand of fan fiction in which same-sex television or film characters are subversively made into queer subjects, has grown in recent years. The practice of queer readings, which is about repositioning texts outside the borders of heteronormativity, very much resembles some of the basic premises of queer theory, the post-structural theory that contests strict categorical views on gender and sexuality. …
Attracting the un-served audience
Digital television services not only provide promise for interactive services, but also for long tail-based business models in terms of tailor-made content. As the share of culture in total linear television programming is diminishing owing to the supremacy of audience rating concerns, digital television services could act as an alternative gateway to deliver culture to a wider audience. This article presents the results of a market pilot study u…
Metropolitan vs rural cinemagoing in Flanders, 1925-75
status: Published
Explorations in New Cinema History
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
Henri Storck, le cinéma belge et l'Occupation
book review of Henri Storck, le cinéma belge et l’Occupation
Afterword
This paper was written as a response to the six main articles that appear in the special issue Education in Motion: Producing Methodologies for Researching Documentary Film on Education. The afterword first tries to locate the special issue in a wider debate on the reassessment of the relationship between film, children and education. The article then considers how the usage of film as a research resource by historians of education might open up …
Glocalized Telenovelas and National Identities
This article examines the globalization of the telenovela format in relation to issues of adaptation, proximities, and national identities. As a case study of glocalized telenovelas, it deals with the domestic adaptation of one of the most popular Latin American telenovelas, Yo soy Betty, la fea (1999-2001), into the “telenovelle” Sara (2007-2008), which takes place in a Belgian (more specifically Flemish) context. Therefore, this article specifi…
Queer Gazing and the Popular
In this chapter, we elaborate on the construction of queer representations in popular television fiction. In spite of the critical and commercial success of “queer” television fiction series (e.g., Queer as Folk , The L Word , Six Feet Under ), queer representations are sometimes still seen as controversial. The aim of this chapter is to obtain a better insight into the social and emancipating role of queer representations in contemporary popular…
Let's talk about sex
Teenage sexual identity is shaped within a complex cultural landscape in which the issue of protecting the ‘innocent’ (children/teens) from sexually suggestive images is high on the public agenda. Intimate relationships and sexuality have entered the public domain and are presented on the screen, offering audiences possible roles to play in reality. Trepidation of teenagers being ‘corrupted’ by sexualised media has urged many scholars to investig…
Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain
Review of Julian Petley's book "Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain
A Newsreel of Our Own’
Overview of the literature on the history of newsreels and other forms of filmed news, situated within theories of globalisation, cultural dominance and local culture
A Clockwork Orange
Book review of "A Clockwork Orange" by Peter Krämer, published by Palgrave Macmillan, Controversies series
The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies
The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies brings together over 175 critical essays to redraw the boundaries of this rapidly evolving and dynamically complex area. Global in scope, wide-ranging in its inclusion of topics, and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars, this is the definitive resource for the field. Includes more than 175 essays written by over 200 leading and emerging scholars from across the globe Arranged…
The X-factor of charity
In our contemporary mediatized societies, philanthropy seems to be part of celebrities’ ontology, while celebrities have become indispensable for the charity industry. This has provoked both negative and positive appraisals, although the specific nature and consequences of celebrities’ involvement remain unclear. This article contributes to these debates by providing a systematic analysis of the roles celebrities play in telethons, which we redef…
Filmed News and Nationalism in Belgium
Article on the use of film by the Flemish Movement in Belgium, more precisely on the filmed news production by Clemens De Landtsheer during the interwar period
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