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Books by Kris Van Heuckelom
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, transnational European cinema has risen, not only in t... more Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, transnational European cinema has risen, not only in terms of production but also in terms of a growing focus on multiethnic themes within the European context. This shift from national to trans-European filmmaking has been profoundly influenced by such historical developments as the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the subsequent ongoing enlargement of the European Union.
In European Cinema after the Wall: Screening East–West Mobility, Leen Engelen and Kris Van Heuckelom have brought together essays that critically examine representations of post-1989 migration from the former Eastern Bloc to Western Europe, uncovering an array of common tropes and narrative devices that characterize the influences and portrayals of immigration.
Featuring essays by contributors from backgrounds as divergent as film studies, Slavic and Russian studies, comparative literature, sociology, contemporary history, and communication and media studies, this volume will appeal to scholars of film, European history, and those interested in the impact of migration, diaspora, and the global flow of cinematic culture.
Papers by Kris Van Heuckelom
Symposium, Jan 1, 2008
ABSTRACT: The article explores two examples of reflexive interartistic contamination in the works... more ABSTRACT: The article explores two examples of reflexive interartistic contamination in the works of the Polish Modernist artist Bruno Schulz (1892 1942). First, it argues that Schulz's early cycle of engravings, The Idolatrous Booke (Xięga bałwochwalcza 1920), draws on the notion of ...
'In Holland there is a house'. The representation of Polish immigrants in recent Dutch feature fi... more 'In Holland there is a house'. The representation of Polish immigrants in recent Dutch feature films This article looks into the representation of Polish immigrants in recent Dutch feature films (1997-2012), with a particular focus on the prominent role of domestic settings and familial dysfunctions in the pictures involved. As the analysis reveals, many of the films under discussion bring into view troubled Dutch protagonists (especially men) who suffer from degradation in the familial and social sphere. The Polish characters in turn tend to be instrumentalized as (potential) agents of change (or rather 'restoration'), taking up traditional familial and domestic roles that are no longer fulfilled by Dutch characters. While the narrative function granted to Polish immigrants in Dutch film can be closely linked to the widespread perception of Poland (and East Central Europe at large) as less 'modern' (than the West) as well as to the physical, strongly gender-typed labor usually performed by these jobseekers, the Dutch treatment of Polish characters remains largely in line with the screen portrait of expatriate Poles in other European cinemas (i.e., 'noble' rather than 'savage'). In the meanwhile, however, with its particular focus on (declining) 'domesticity' in Dutch private and public spaces, the corpus of films under discussion points to the contradictory feelings of nostalgia underlying the treatment of migration in Dutch representational practices: while some films expose the longing for the preservation of a monolithic Dutch 'home' unaffected by immigrants, other productions instrumentalize the influx of foreigners as a means to reinstall a sense of (female) domesticity into the center of the Dutch family.
Russian Literature, 2011
The article offers a description of the rich literary output of the Polish writer Marian Pankowsk... more The article offers a description of the rich literary output of the Polish writer Marian Pankowski and of the winding path his works have traversed over the past decades both in Western Europe and in his homeland. Its main assumption is that the peculiarities of Pankowski's reception in Poland and abroad appear to be bound up with the artistic and ideological choices the author of Rudolf has made throughout his long-lasting career as a poet, playwright and novelist. The general description serves as a background for the introduction of the other ten papers included in this special issue dedicated to Pankowski's ambiguous literary output.
Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, 2008
ABSTRACT: The article explores two examples of reflexive interartistic contamination in the works... more ABSTRACT: The article explores two examples of reflexive interartistic contamination in the works of the Polish Modernist artist Bruno Schulz (1892 1942). First, it argues that Schulz's early cycle of engravings, The Idolatrous Booke (Xięga bałwochwalcza 1920), draws on the notion of ...
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, transnational European cinema has risen, not only in t... more Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, transnational European cinema has risen, not only in terms of production but also in terms of a growing focus on multiethnic themes within the European context. This shift from national to trans-European filmmaking has been profoundly influenced by such historical developments as the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the subsequent ongoing enlargement of the European Union.
In European Cinema after the Wall: Screening East–West Mobility, Leen Engelen and Kris Van Heuckelom have brought together essays that critically examine representations of post-1989 migration from the former Eastern Bloc to Western Europe, uncovering an array of common tropes and narrative devices that characterize the influences and portrayals of immigration.
Featuring essays by contributors from backgrounds as divergent as film studies, Slavic and Russian studies, comparative literature, sociology, contemporary history, and communication and media studies, this volume will appeal to scholars of film, European history, and those interested in the impact of migration, diaspora, and the global flow of cinematic culture.
Symposium, Jan 1, 2008
ABSTRACT: The article explores two examples of reflexive interartistic contamination in the works... more ABSTRACT: The article explores two examples of reflexive interartistic contamination in the works of the Polish Modernist artist Bruno Schulz (1892 1942). First, it argues that Schulz's early cycle of engravings, The Idolatrous Booke (Xięga bałwochwalcza 1920), draws on the notion of ...
'In Holland there is a house'. The representation of Polish immigrants in recent Dutch feature fi... more 'In Holland there is a house'. The representation of Polish immigrants in recent Dutch feature films This article looks into the representation of Polish immigrants in recent Dutch feature films (1997-2012), with a particular focus on the prominent role of domestic settings and familial dysfunctions in the pictures involved. As the analysis reveals, many of the films under discussion bring into view troubled Dutch protagonists (especially men) who suffer from degradation in the familial and social sphere. The Polish characters in turn tend to be instrumentalized as (potential) agents of change (or rather 'restoration'), taking up traditional familial and domestic roles that are no longer fulfilled by Dutch characters. While the narrative function granted to Polish immigrants in Dutch film can be closely linked to the widespread perception of Poland (and East Central Europe at large) as less 'modern' (than the West) as well as to the physical, strongly gender-typed labor usually performed by these jobseekers, the Dutch treatment of Polish characters remains largely in line with the screen portrait of expatriate Poles in other European cinemas (i.e., 'noble' rather than 'savage'). In the meanwhile, however, with its particular focus on (declining) 'domesticity' in Dutch private and public spaces, the corpus of films under discussion points to the contradictory feelings of nostalgia underlying the treatment of migration in Dutch representational practices: while some films expose the longing for the preservation of a monolithic Dutch 'home' unaffected by immigrants, other productions instrumentalize the influx of foreigners as a means to reinstall a sense of (female) domesticity into the center of the Dutch family.
Russian Literature, 2011
The article offers a description of the rich literary output of the Polish writer Marian Pankowsk... more The article offers a description of the rich literary output of the Polish writer Marian Pankowski and of the winding path his works have traversed over the past decades both in Western Europe and in his homeland. Its main assumption is that the peculiarities of Pankowski's reception in Poland and abroad appear to be bound up with the artistic and ideological choices the author of Rudolf has made throughout his long-lasting career as a poet, playwright and novelist. The general description serves as a background for the introduction of the other ten papers included in this special issue dedicated to Pankowski's ambiguous literary output.
Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, 2008
ABSTRACT: The article explores two examples of reflexive interartistic contamination in the works... more ABSTRACT: The article explores two examples of reflexive interartistic contamination in the works of the Polish Modernist artist Bruno Schulz (1892 1942). First, it argues that Schulz's early cycle of engravings, The Idolatrous Booke (Xięga bałwochwalcza 1920), draws on the notion of ...