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Spektakelcultuur in de Lage Landen: naar een geïntegreerde en interdisciplinaire benadering
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Technologies of Spectacle and ‘The Birth of the Modern World’. A Proposal for an Interconnected Historiographic Approach to Spectacular Cultures
No full textThe article unfolds a proposal to approach a history of spectacle. With a specific focus on technologies of spectacle it tends to trace the interconnectedness of technics, art and science events across disciplinary and geographical borders at the cusp of modernity around 1800 in Europe. Technics, arts and science went hand in hand to produce a new spectacular knowledge culture resulting from the relation of both analogy and causality between industrial transformation and the social revolution. It is claimed that on the one hand the arrival of new technologies like the steam machine, electricity, magnetism and so on produced the spectacular; on the other hand, spectacular practices like panorama, diorama, and phantasmagoria right up to the melodrama (all emerging in that time) took intrinsically part in the formation of modern societies
Northern Ireland’s 1968 at The Ulster Museum
No full textIn the dominant and increasingly prevalent transnational narrative of 1968, the case of Northern Ireland has been marginalised. As well as explaining how such an erroneous absence is to be understood, this article, through the example of an ongoing project at Belfast’s Ulster Museum, will argue that the current post-Troubles context provides fertile terrain for a recalibration of how this period is remembered from both within and without. It is concluded that such a project offers potentially valuable lessons for handling the difficult question of the past in Northern Ireland and beyond
De rekbare waarheid. Over de objectiviteit van betrokken journalistiek
No full textReview of: Taco Rijssemus, De rekbare waarheid. Over de objectiviteit van betrokken journalistiek(Amsterdam University Press) 2014, 234 pp. ISBN 978908964710
België verdeeld. Filmdistributie in bezet België (1914-1918)1
No full textIn de oorlogsjaren kende bezet België een relatief divers amusementsleven waarin ook bioscopen een belangrijke rol speelden. Aan het begin van de oorlog sloot een behoorlijk aantal zalen de deuren, maar in de meeste steden vonden vanaf het tweede oorlogsjaar opnieuw regelmatig filmvertoningen plaats. Al gauw werd de bioscoop een van de populairste uitgaansplekken. De grote vraag naar filmamusement zette de bioscoopeigenaars echter op prangende wijze onder druk. De internationale situatie en het Duitse cultuur- en filmbeleid dat in de loop van de oorlogsjaren steeds strakker vorm kreeg, had de filmdistributiesector immers volledig op z’n kop gezet. Door importbepalingen, logistieke problemen en censuur werd de Belgische markt de facto afgesloten van de belangrijkste vooroorlogse filmleveranciers(Frankrijk, Italië). Het belangrijkste gevolg daarvan was een gebrek aan recente en lange speelfilms, waaraan de import vanuit Duitsland en in beperktere mate vanuit Nederland en Denemarken slechts gedeeltelijk tegemoet kwam. Belangrijke verschuivingen in de Belgische distributiesector waren het gevolg van het Duitse filmbeleid. Archiefbronnen werpen tevens een licht op hoe Belgische distributeurs en vertoners schipperden tussen economische rendabiliteit, patriottisme en de steeds strakkere Duitse regelgeving
Typography in Media Historical Perspective. An Introduction
No full textAt first glance, a special issue on the subject of typography might seem an unusual choice for an academic journal dedicated to media history. After all, wouldn’t the study of typography be better suited to a publication on the history of art and graphic design, or perhaps the study of books? A quick glance through previous general issues of the Journal for Media History (Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis, or TMG) reveals that the majority of the articles deal with traditional media such as film, television, photography and print media. But TMG also publishes special issues on a wide variety of topics, ranging from the monarchy to scandals to representations of nature. These special issues challenge the journal to explore its boundaries, both in terms of research and scope. It will be interesting to see just which boundaries this special issue on typography will be crossed
Computerspellen en de Geschiedenis van angst: Het gebruik en misbruik van historische vergelijkingen
No full textComputer games are, as a relatively new genre of games, highly contested and they have instigated heated debates and polarised opinions. This paper analyses the ongoing debate about their cultural meaning, a debate in which historical comparison figures prominently, often to underline that these new games have negative social implications. The starting point is Robert Edward Davis's careful rhetorical study of the various arguments that have accompanied the introduction of new media in the past. The article aims to put the introduction of computer games in a historical perspective, and to underline the fact that the players themselves - despite the widely made claim that computer games have a negative influence on them - who often play an active role in the development and shaping of computer games