Ghent Cinema City / Gent Kinemastad
ABOUT
Ghent Cinema City (Gent Kinemastad) was a follow-up study of The Enlightened City project, focusing upon the history of cinema culture in the city of Ghent and its suburbs (1896-2010). The project applied a triangulation of methods and approaches: an extensive dataset and mapping of film theatres and other exhibition places; programming analysis (sample years); and oral histories (62 interviews). The project contained some in-depth case studies on particular venues (e.g. on the main premiere cinema Capitol, on soft-erotic cinema Leopold).
FUNDING
Project title: Ghent Cinema City / Gent Kinemastad (1896-2010), project funded by the Ghent University research fund BOF-project (2009-2012).
TEAM / CONTACT
- Van de Vijver, L. & Biltereyst, D. (2010) Hollywood vs. Localiteit. Het ongelijke aanbod van Amerikaanse en Europese film in de jaren dertig in Gent, Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis, 13(2): 60-79.
- Biltereyst, D., Meers, Ph. & Van de Vijver, L. (2011) Social Class, Experiences of Distinctions and Cinema in Postwar Ghent, pp. 101-124 in: R. Maltby, D. Biltereyst & Ph. Meers (eds.) Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Van de Vijver, L. (2011) Gent Kinemastad: Een multimethodisch onderzoek naar de ontwikkeling van de filmexploitatie, filmprogrammering en filmbeleving in de stad Gent en randgemeenten (1896-2010) als case binnen New Cinema History onderzoek. Gent: UGent [unpublished doctoral dissertation, supervisor D. Biltereyst]
- Van de Vijver, L. & Biltereyst, D. (2013) Cinemagoing as a conditional part of everyday life: Memories of cinemagoing in Ghent from the 1930s to the 1970s, Cultural Studies, 27(4): 561-584. (IF = 0.667 – Anthropology = 39/75 and Cultural studies = 7 / 38 for 2013)
- Van de Vijver, L. & Biltereyst, D. (2015) Filmtheaters: Gent Cinemastad. Gent: Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen/Caermersklooster, 64 p. ISBN 97894991776045.
- Van de Vijver, L., Biltereyst, D. & Velders, K. (2015) Crisis at the Capitole: A cultural economics analysis of a major first-run cinema in Ghent, 1953-1971, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 35(1): 75-124. DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2014.903037 (ISI Thompson Master journal).
- Biltereyst, D. (2017) Ode de Skoop, pp. 224-227, in Germonprez, P. (ed.) Skopiumschuivers: De dolle jaren van Studio Skoop 1970-1982 en het woelige culturele leven in Gent. Gent: Snoeck.
- Biltereyst, D. (2018) Sex Cinemas, Limit Transgression and the Aura of ‘Forbiddenness’: The Emergence of risqués cinemas and Cinema Leopold in Ghent, Belgium, 1945-1954, Film Studies, 18(3): 14-33.
- van Oort, T., Jernudd, Å., Lotze, K., Pafort-Overduin, C., Biltereyst, D., Boter, J., … Van de Vijver, L. (2020) Mapping film programming across Post-War Europe (1952). RESEARCH DATA JOURNAL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 5(2), 109–125.
- Porubčanská, T., Meers, P., & Biltereyst, D. (2020) 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. TMG Journal of Media History, 23(1), 1–23.
- Biltereyst, D., & Meers, P. (2020) Comparative, Entangled, Parallel and “Other” Cinema Histories. Another Reflection on the Comparative Mode Within New Cinema History. TMG Journal for Media History, 23(1), 1–9.