Philippe Meers

Philippe Meers is a Professor in Film and Media Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, where he is deputy director of the Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi) and director of the Center for Mexican Studies. He has published widely on historical and contemporary film cultures and audiences. With Richard Maltby and Daniel Biltereyst, he co-edited Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies (2011), Audiences, Cinema and Modernity: New Perspectives on European Cinema History (2012) and The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History (2019). With Annette Kuhn and Daniel Biltereyst, he co-edited a special issue of Memory Studies (2017). He is currently co-editing Cinema in the Arab World: New Histories, New Approaches with Ifdal Elsaket and Daniel Biltereyst (Bloomsbury, World Cinema series, 2022).