Belgische boeren in beeld.: Een online databank van bewegend beeld over landbouw en platteland, 1920-1990.

Sven Lefèvre; Yves Segers

doi:10.52024/tseg10767

Belgische boeren in beeld

Een online databank van bewegend beeld over landbouw en platteland, 1920-1990

Authors

Sven Lefèvre KU Leuven
Yves Segers KU Leuven

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52024/tseg10767

Keywords:

Landbouw, 20e eeuw, cinema, film

Abstract

Belgian farmers in motion pictures. An online database with films on agriculture and countryside, 1920-1990.

Since its breakthrough as a mass medium, film has exerted a major influence on society. Not only as a form of entertainment, but also as a mode of mass communication accompanied with great educational aspirations. Agriculture and the rural countryside have been the subject as well as the target audience of many so called ‘rural films’, produced by government administrations and civil society organizations, trying to influence rural politics and modernize daily farming practices. The ‘Cinema Rural’-database, presented in this article, makes it possible for researchers to access the metadata of almost a thousand rural films kept in Belgian collections. By doing so, the Centre for Agrarian History (KU Leuven) wants to encourage the use of these films in further research in agricultural and rural history.

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Author Biographies

Sven Lefèvre, KU Leuven

Sven Lefèvre is master in de Geschiedenis en werkt momenteel in het Centrum Agrarische Geschiedenis (CAG vzw, Leuven) aan het ‘Cinema Rural’-project, dat bewegend beeldmateriaal over landbouw en platteland in collecties in Vlaanderen en Brussel in kaart wil brengen, beschrijven en ontsluiten via de website www.cagnet.be.

Yves Segers, KU Leuven

Yves Segers is coördinator van het Interfacultair Centrum voor Agrarische Geschiedenis (ICAG, KU Leuven) en van erfgoedorganisatie Centrum Agrarische Geschiedenis (CAG vzw). Als professor Rurale Geschiedenis is hij tevens verbonden aan de onderzoeksgroep Moderniteit en Samenleving 1800-2000 (MoSa) van de KU Leuven. Zijn onderzoek richt zich op de geschiedenis van landbouw, platteland en voedselsystemen in België en Europa sinds 1750.

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Published

2021-10-01

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Lefèvre, S., & Segers, Y. (2021). Belgische boeren in beeld: Een online databank van bewegend beeld over landbouw en platteland, 1920-1990. TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 18(2). https://doi.org/10.52024/tseg10767

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Vol. 18 No. 2 (2021)

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