Gertjan Willems
Biographic Data
| ID | 3652527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gertjan Willems |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gertjan |
| FAMILY NAME | Willems |
| SIGNATURE | WILLEMS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Visual Poetics/ViDi/CIMSUniversity of Antwerp/Ghent UniversityDepartments of Literature and Communication SciencesGhentBelgium |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Entering the Walloon Gothic
Over the last decade, Belgium’s Dutch-speaking region of Flanders has been marked by a nationalist impulse. This is most clearly visible in the discourses and electoral success of nationalist parties, which call for a greater degree of Flemish independence from the Belgian state and its southern, French-speaking region of Wallonia. This article analyzes how a certain strand within contemporary Flemish cinema relates to such Flemish nationalist di…
Robbe De Hert
Het oeuvre van de Belgische cineast Robbe De Hert (20 september 1942 – 24 augustus 2020) is erg divers. Hij realiseerde experimentele animatiefilms ( A Funny Thing Happened on my Way to Golgotha ) en maatschappijkritische filmpamfletten ( Camera sutra ), maar evengoed een populaire komedie ( Zware jongens ), een adaptatie van een historische plattelandsroman ( De Witte van Sichem ) of een Willem Elsschotverfilming ( Lijmen/Het been ). De Hert was…
Local flavors and regional markers
The practice of Dutch-Flemish film remaking that came into existence in the new millennium quickly appeared to be of great importance in the film industries of Flanders and The Netherlands – and consequently of Europe. Inspired by methods used in television (format) studies, this article conducts a systematic comparative film analysis of nine Dutch-Flemish remakes together with their nine source films. Considering the remake as a prism that aids …
From Political Biography to Political Event
This article examines how Louis Paul Boon's historical novel Pieter Daens (1971) and Stijn Coninx's biopic Daens (1992) have contributed to the "Daens myth," in which the Belgian priest and politician Adolf Daens is idealized as a self-assured hero fighting social injustice. The article focuses on how Daens is related to Flemish nation-building and how the political biopic became a political event itself
Reconceptualising Film Policies
Cinema, the Government, and the Popular
This article examines the evolution of both the popular and the commercial aspects within the official film production support in Flanders between 1964 and 2002. The article sheds light on the policy motivations underlying the cultural-commercial tension, which was a continuous issue of conflict for the Flemish film policy actors
Nationalism and the cinema in France
Hugo Frey opens his book Nationalism and the cinema in France by positioning it as complementary to the rise of scholarship on the transnational dimensions of cinema. Although he sees transnational and national cinema as two sides of the same coin that are often interwoven, Frey concentrates on the latter, thereby focusing on France in the period 1945-1995. The aim of the book is twofold. On the one hand, Frey aims to discern the ‘political myths…
The Europeanness of European cinema
According to its editors, the aim of The Europeanness of European cinema is ‘to revisit the issue of the significance of European cinema as a category in the wake of the recent acceleration in transnational filmmaking and globalization as a whole’ (p. 7). Taking the transnational prominence of European cinema as a starting point, the anthology’s introduction presents some brief reflections about what ‘Europeanness’ – the central, overarching conc…
Film policy, national identity and period adaptations in Flanders during the 1970s and 1980s
During the 1970s and 1980s, ‘period adaptations,’ or period films based on the Flemish literary patrimony, were the most prominent and prestigious genre of film production in Flanders, the northern, Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. Connecting the observation that official film policy largely determines Flemish film production with the dominant interpretation of period adaptations in Flemish cultural and national terms, these films are often seen…
The People's Pictures
The British Film Institute, the government and film culture, 1933-2000
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Christophe Dupin (Eds), Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2012, xvi+331 pp., illus., bibliography, index, £65.00 (cloth) The British Film Institute, the government
Film policy, national identity and period adaptations in Flanders during the 1970s and 1980s
During the 1970s and 1980s, ‘period adaptations,’ or period films based on the Flemish literary patrimony, were the most prominent and prestigious genre of film production in Flanders, the northern, Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. Connecting the observation that official film policy largely determines Flemish film production with the dominant interpretation of period adaptations in Flemish cultural and national terms, these films are often seen…
The British Film Institute, the government and film culture, 1933-2000
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Christophe Dupin (Eds), Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2012, xvi+331 pp., illus., bibliography, index, £65.00 (cloth) The British Film Institute, the government
From Political Biography to Political Event
This article examines how Louis Paul Boon's historical novel Pieter Daens (1971) and Stijn Coninx's biopic Daens (1992) have contributed to the "Daens myth," in which the Belgian priest and politician Adolf Daens is idealized as a self-assured hero fighting social injustice. The article focuses on how Daens is related to Flemish nation-building and how the political biopic became a political event itself
The People's Pictures
The British Film Institute, the government and film culture, 1933-2000
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Christophe Dupin (Eds), Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2012, xvi+331 pp., illus., bibliography, index, £65.00 (cloth) The British Film Institute, the government
Nationalism and the cinema in France
Hugo Frey opens his book Nationalism and the cinema in France by positioning it as complementary to the rise of scholarship on the transnational dimensions of cinema. Although he sees transnational and national cinema as two sides of the same coin that are often interwoven, Frey concentrates on the latter, thereby focusing on France in the period 1945-1995. The aim of the book is twofold. On the one hand, Frey aims to discern the ‘political myths…
The Europeanness of European cinema
According to its editors, the aim of The Europeanness of European cinema is ‘to revisit the issue of the significance of European cinema as a category in the wake of the recent acceleration in transnational filmmaking and globalization as a whole’ (p. 7). Taking the transnational prominence of European cinema as a starting point, the anthology’s introduction presents some brief reflections about what ‘Europeanness’ – the central, overarching conc…
Film policy, national identity and period adaptations in Flanders during the 1970s and 1980s
During the 1970s and 1980s, ‘period adaptations,’ or period films based on the Flemish literary patrimony, were the most prominent and prestigious genre of film production in Flanders, the northern, Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. Connecting the observation that official film policy largely determines Flemish film production with the dominant interpretation of period adaptations in Flemish cultural and national terms, these films are often seen…
Cinema, the Government, and the Popular
This article examines the evolution of both the popular and the commercial aspects within the official film production support in Flanders between 1964 and 2002. The article sheds light on the policy motivations underlying the cultural-commercial tension, which was a continuous issue of conflict for the Flemish film policy actors
Reconceptualising Film Policies
From Political Biography to Political Event
This article examines how Louis Paul Boon's historical novel Pieter Daens (1971) and Stijn Coninx's biopic Daens (1992) have contributed to the "Daens myth," in which the Belgian priest and politician Adolf Daens is idealized as a self-assured hero fighting social injustice. The article focuses on how Daens is related to Flemish nation-building and how the political biopic became a political event itself
Local flavors and regional markers
The practice of Dutch-Flemish film remaking that came into existence in the new millennium quickly appeared to be of great importance in the film industries of Flanders and The Netherlands – and consequently of Europe. Inspired by methods used in television (format) studies, this article conducts a systematic comparative film analysis of nine Dutch-Flemish remakes together with their nine source films. Considering the remake as a prism that aids …
Robbe De Hert
Het oeuvre van de Belgische cineast Robbe De Hert (20 september 1942 – 24 augustus 2020) is erg divers. Hij realiseerde experimentele animatiefilms ( A Funny Thing Happened on my Way to Golgotha ) en maatschappijkritische filmpamfletten ( Camera sutra ), maar evengoed een populaire komedie ( Zware jongens ), een adaptatie van een historische plattelandsroman ( De Witte van Sichem ) of een Willem Elsschotverfilming ( Lijmen/Het been ). De Hert was…
Entering the Walloon Gothic
Over the last decade, Belgium’s Dutch-speaking region of Flanders has been marked by a nationalist impulse. This is most clearly visible in the discourses and electoral success of nationalist parties, which call for a greater degree of Flemish independence from the Belgian state and its southern, French-speaking region of Wallonia. This article analyzes how a certain strand within contemporary Flemish cinema relates to such Flemish nationalist di…
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