SCREENING CENSORSHIP CONFERENCE
About the Organizers

 

Daniel Biltereyst

Daniel Biltereyst

daniel.biltereyst@ugent.be

Daniel Biltereyst is Professor in Film and Media Studies at the Department of Communication Studies, Ghent University, Belgium, where he teaches film and media history, and cultural media studies. Besides being Director of the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies (CIMS) and an elected member of the Academia Europaea, he is also linked to the HoMER network. He is the main supervisor of the Digital Cinema Studies network and of the Hercules/FWO-funded Cinema Ecosystem (CINECOS)project, aiming at building an open access data platform for cinema history in Flanders and Belgium (2018-22). Biltereyst published Explorations in New Cinema History (2011, with R. Maltby and Ph. Meers), Cinema, Audiences and Modernity (2012, with R. Maltby and Ph. Meers), Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship around the World (2013, with R. Vande Winkel), Moralizing Cinema: Film, Catholicism, and Power (2015, with D. Treveri Gennari), a special issue on cinemagoing experiences and memory for Memory Studies (2017, with A. Kuhn and Ph. Meers), and the Routledge Companion to New Cinema History (2019, with R. Maltby and Ph. Meers). He is finalizing Mapping Movie Magazines (2020, with Lies Van de Vijver), is working on Cinema in the Arab World: New Histories, New Approaches (Bloomsbury, with Ifdal Elsaket and Philippe Meers), on New Perspectives on Early Cinema History (Bloomsbury, with Mario Slugan), and tries to finalize a monograph on film/cinema censorship/discipline in Belgium.
 
Ernest Mathijs

Ernest Mathijs

ernest.mathijs@ubc.ca

Ernest Mathijs is a Professor in Film and Media Studies at the University of British Columbia. He researches cult film, genre cinema, controversial films, and European film. He has written on the reception of digital cinema and fantasy (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings), on Belgian and Canadian cinema, The Room, Monty Python’s Meaning of Life, Man Bites Dog, and on the activism and acting of Delphine Seyrig. He has also published 100 Cult Films, Cult Cinema, The Cult Film Reader, and Alternative Europe, amongst others. He is the author of monographs on David Cronenberg and Ginger Snaps. He is a fellow of the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies at UBC, and chair of the editorial board of the online journal Participations. He is the co-producer and co-writer of the two-part documentary The Quiet Revolution (2019), on Canadian genre film since the 1970s. His most recent book is The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema (co-edited with Jamie Sexton). He is obsessed with the question: how long is a moment?

Selected Works:

MAPPING MOVIE MAGAZINES

MAPPING MOVIE MAGAZINES

Edited by Daniel Biltereyst
Lies Van de Vijver
THE FILM CULT READER

THE FILM CULT READER

Edited by Ernest Mathijs
and Xavier Mendik
THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO NEW CINEMA HISTORY

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO NEW CINEMA HISTORY

Edited by Daniel Biltereyst, Richard Maltby
and Philippe Meers
THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO CULT CINEMA

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO CULT CINEMA

Edited by Ernest Mathijs
and Jamie Sexton


Ghent University
Film Fest Gent

University of British Columbia