Roel Vande Winkel

Ciara Chambers

Mats Jönsson

Local, National and Transnational Case Studies

Researching Newsreels

Pavel Skopal

This book analyses the film industries and cinema cultures of Nazi-occupied countries (1939-1945) from the point of view of individuals: local captains of industry, cinema managers, those working for film studios and officials authorized to navigate film policy. The book considers these people from a historical perspective, taking into account their career before the occupation and, where relevant, pays attention to their post-war lives. The perspectives of these historical agents contributes to an understanding of how top-down orders and haphazard signals from the occupying administration were moulded, adjusted and distorted in the process of their translation and implementation. This edited collection offers a more dynamic and less deterministic approach to research on the international expansion of Third-Reich cinema in World War Two; an approach that strives to balance the role of individual agency with the structural determinants. The case studies presented in this book cover the territories of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and the Soviet Union. Pavel Skopal is Associate Professor and department head at the Department of Film Studies and Audio-visual Culture, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. His recent books include The Cinema of the North Triangle (2014) and Cinema in Service of the State (2015, co-edited with Lars Karl). Skopal has published in international journals including Film History, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, and Convergence. Roel Vande Winkel is Associate Professor in Film & TV Studies at KU Leuven and at LUCA School of Arts, Belgium. He is associate editor of Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, and his recent books include Researching Newsreels. Local, National and Transnational Case Studies (2018, with Ciara Chambers and Mats Jonsson), Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship around the World (2013, with Daniel Biltereyst) and Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema (2011 revised, with David Welch).

Mediation Between the National-socialist Cultural "New Order" and Local Structures

Film Professionals in Nazi-occupied Europe

D. Biltereyst

R. Vande Winkel

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 film censorship in major film production countries and explore such innovative themes as film censorship and authorship, religion, and colonialism.

Film Censorship around the World

Silencing Cinema

Mats Jonsson

This volume addresses the underscrutinised topic of cinema newsreels. These short, multi-themed newsfilms, usually accompanied by explanatory intertitles or voiceovers, were a central part of the filmgoing experience around the world from 1910 through the late 1960s, and in many cases even later. As the only source of moving image news available before the widespread advent of television, newsreels are important social documents, recording what the general public was told and shown about the events and personalities of the day. Often disregarded as quirky or trivial, they were heavily utilised as propaganda vehicles, offering insights into the socio-political norms reflected in cinema during the first half of the twentieth century. The book presents a range of current research being undertaken in newsreel studies internationally and makes a case for a reconsideration of the importance of newsreels in the wider landscape of film history.

D. Welch

This is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically, politically and culturally - the film industries of 20 countries and regions either occupied by, friendly with or neutral towards Nazi Germany.

The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema

Cinema and the Swastika

Leen Engelen

This volume addresses the representation of European history in European cinema through a collection of nine case studies such as Der Untergang (2004) and Dawn (1928).

Perspectives on European Film and History

Daniël Biltereyst

In tegenstelling tot buurlanden zoals Frankrijk, Groot-Brittannië en Nederland bestaat er in België geen gids naar audiovisuele bronnen. De nieuwe publicatie Bewegend Geheugen biedt een geannoteerd overzicht van de belangrijkste vindplaatsen voor film-, televisie- en andere audiovisuele bronnen in Vlaanderen. De gids richt zich niet alleen naar archieven en de audiovisuele sector (omroepen, productiehuizen, beeldresearchers,...) maar heeft ook een ruimer doelpubliek (studenten en onderzoekers binnen de domeinen van geschiedenis, communicatiewetenschappen,...). Bewegend Geheugen biedt een handig werkinstrument voor wie op zoek gaat naar actuele of historische beelden over Vlaanderen. Bijdragen over beeld als bron, over beelddragers en -formaten (van nitraatfilm tot DVD) en over het auteursrecht op audiovisuele werken plaatsen deze problematiek in een ruimer kader. Het boek bevat talrijke illustraties, waarvan heel wat in kleur.

Roel Vande Winkel

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