Quo Vadis, Cinema Europaeum? Reflections on European Cinema in Digital Times

Authors

  • Daniel Biltereyst Ghent University
  • Elena Gipponi IULM University, Milan
  • Andrea Miconi IULM University, Milan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54103/2036-461X/22436

Keywords:

Streaming Platforms, Global Cinema Landscape, Digital Audiovisual Policies, European Cinema

Author Biographies

Daniel Biltereyst, Ghent University

Daniel Biltereyst is Professor of Film and Media History at Ghent University, where he is also director of CIMS research center (Center for Cinema and Media Studies). He extensively published in the fields of media and film censorship, new cinema history, and critical historical audience studies. He recently edited New Perspectives on Early Cinema History: Concepts, Approaches, Audiences (2022, with Mario Slugan) and Cinema in the Arab World: New Histories, New Approaches (2023, with Ifdal Elsaket and Philippe Meers). Together with Bruno Mestdagh he recently made the compilation-documentary Ongezien/invisible (2022). He is now working on the volume Companion to Screen Censorship (with Ernest Mathijs).

Elena Gipponi, IULM University, Milan

Elena Gipponi is a research fellow at IULM University of Milan, where she received her PhD in Communication and New Technologies. She teaches courses in Film Criticism and Color Cultures in Cinema and Media. She has written a number of articles and essays on color and, with Joshua Yumibe, edited “Cinema and Mid-century Colour Culture,” a special issue of Cinéma&Cie. Her research focuses on the cultural and technological history of Italian cinema and media. She is currently taking part in the research project FilmBaseMatters: A Material Approach to the History of Small-gauge Film in Italy.

Andrea Miconi, IULM University, Milan

Andrea Miconi is Professor of Media Sociology at IULM University in Milan, and the Principal Investigator of the Horizon project EUMEPLAT – European Media Platforms: Assessing Positive and Negative Externalities for European Culture. Formerly he has been the Coordinator of the European project PAgES - Post-crisis Journalism in Post-crisis Libya. His last book is The Media Systems in Europe. Continuities and Discontinuities (edited with Sylianos Papathanassopoulos, Springer, 2023).

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2024-04-05

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Biltereyst, D., Gipponi, E., & Miconi, A. (2024). Quo Vadis, Cinema Europaeum? Reflections on European Cinema in Digital Times. Cinéma & Cie. Film and Media Studies Journal, 23(41), 9–20. https://doi.org/10.54103/2036-461X/22436

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Vol. 23 No. 41 (2023): Cinematic Continuities, Changes and Challenges in Europe: Reflections on Recent Shifts in European Cinema

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Introduction

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