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Crime, the city and the Congo: Family, race and the urban in recent Belgian cinema.

Pieter Van Hees's Waste Land (2014) situates Belgian national anxiety in the country's White supremacist past and present, both of which milieux are shared by its language communities. The film suggests, perhaps in spite of itself, that the claim by Brussels to be a centre of power is ethnically, as...

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Published in:Journal of European Popular Culture Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 21 - 35
Main Author: Hartford, Jason
Format: Article
Published: Intellect Ltd. Apr2024
Subjects:
Waste lands
History of colonies
Black women
Black feminists
Families
Crime
Brussels (Belgium)
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost