Movie going in the Netherlands
History of film exhibition and movie going in the Netherlands
Movie-going distribution and exhibition in German-occupied Belgium
I am investigating (1) the German ‘reorganisation’ of the Belgian film sector in World War II, (2) its effects on film distribution, film exhibition, movie-going, film reception, film production… I have been working/publishing on this subject since 2003, initially as a post-doctoral researcher and now (as associate professor) as a long-term project. I am, simultaneously, […]
Kinomatics
The Kinomatics Project analyses and visualises the international flow of films based on worldwide showtime data. The underlying project data describes every ‘showtime’ for all films in 48 countries – generating more than a million records each week. Based on this data the project explores the diffusion of cultural goods such as film through a […]
Film censorship in Shanghai
This research mainly studies the establishment, implementation and changes of film censorship in the foreign settlements in Shanghai under series of important historical changes, along with the influence of the film censorship on the Chinese film and the Chinese culture. This research focuses on three parts concerning the film censorship: the authorities, the film industry […]
Filmapping
Ghent has had a very diverse film exhibition scene. This project aims to take three extreme varied forms of film programming in an effort to understand the lived film programming culture. The Capitole is a monument in Ghent cinema history; it was the most prestigious film palace in town, programming a wide variety of films […]
Silent Cinema in Norway 1910/1925
This dissertation examines the emergence of the cinema as an institution in Norway, with particular emphasis on the years 1910 and 1925.
Montreal Film Exhibitors
My research investigates the relationship between the local agents involved in film exhibition and the vertically integrated transnational networks that allegedly monopolized the Canadian film market starting in the late silent era. I seek to, firstly, establish the site of the ownership and control of the main theatre chains operating in Canada (and more particularly […]
Cinema audiences in Philadelphia
The project entails processing and analyzing extant weekly billing sheets from the archive of the Stanley-Warner theater chain at USC. This unparalleled resource has not previously been organized or accessed. The data include information about film programs, film rental costs, and daily box- office reports from 122 theaters in the Philadelphia exchange during 1935-1936. It […]
