I.l. Blom`

Biography

Lecturer Department of Arts & Culture, Faculty of Humanities, VU University, Amsterdam. Programme director of the Master Comparative Arts & Media Studies. Member of research schools and research networks RMeS, CLUE , Huizinga Instituut, ISIS, GBG, NECS, Domitor, AAIS, and AIRSC. Former member of WAR (scientific board of the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome) on behalf of VU University (2008/2012/2012-2016)

Research Interest

esearch My current research focuses on the intervisual relationships between cinema and other arts. While forthcoming (2017) is a major study on Luchino Visconti’s appropriation of visual arts and cinema (see e.g. Blom 2006, Acta 2010, Bono et. al. 2013), present research deals with early Italian cinema and its ties with visual arts and popular culture (see e.g. my articles in Sinisi et. al. 2010, Bertellini 2013, and Acta 2013), and with Antiquity and cinema, which has also effected in my co-curatorship of the - extremely successful - exhibition Alma-Tadema: Classical Charm (Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, 2016-2017), my co-organisation of workshops at the Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna, and my film programme Italian Muscle in Weimar Film at the 2015 Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone. From 1991, I regularly published in Dutch and foreign journals, volumes and encyclopedias on early cinema (various nationalities, genres, distribution, exhibition). From 1994 to 2000, I wrote my dissertation at the University of Amsterdam (2000), which was debated in 2000 and published in 2003 as Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade. The research dealt with early film distribution and exhibition in the so-called transitional era of film history, and was primarily based on the Desmet Collection of EYE (formerly Netherlands Filmmuseum), now recognized by Unesco as World Heritage. The 2003 book was extensively and positively reviewed (see Reviews and Interviews).