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 Hercules/FWO-funded Cinema Ecosystem (CINECOS) project, aiming at building an open access data platform for cinema history in Flanders and Belgium (2018-24, see Cinema Belgica). He’s the supervisor of the Belgian part of the H2020 EUMEPLAT project (European Media Platforms, 2021-24), the H2020 project REBOOT (Reviving, boosting, optimising and transforming European film competitiveness, 2023-26), and the EU-funded cinema heritage project ‘Dialogue for Cinema as Cultural Heritage in Adana’. Biltereyst is involved in various historical cinemagoing projects (see Cinema City Cultures, curated with Ph. Meers). He is also involved as a film programmer in the Ghent University’s film club Film-Plateau.
He published a monograph on the history of film/cinema censorship in Belgium (Verboden beelden: De verborgen geschiedenis van filmcensuur in België, 2020, in Dutch) and made a documentary with Bruno Mestdagh on film cuttings (Ongezien/invisible, 2020, Cinematek). He is now working on the Screening Censorship Companion (University of Exeter Press, with E. Mathijs). He also extensively published in edited volumes and academic journals like Cultural Studies, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Memory Studies, and Screen.
Biltereyst supervised more than 20 doctoral research projects, mostly in the field of his expertise: film and media history, historical media audience research, media censorship and controversy, and new cinema history.
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