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Jono Van Belle

Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences

Email: am9uby52YW4tYmVsbGU7b3J1LnNl

Phone: No number available

Room: F3105

Research subject

Media and Communication Studies

Research environments

Centre for Feminist Social Studies (CFS)

About Jono Van Belle

Jono Van Belle is Associate Professor in the department of Media- and Communication Studies at the School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences. She earned her joint PhD in Communication and Cinema Studies at Ghent University and Stockholm University in 2019.

Research

Van Belle has recently published an anthology in cooperation with María Paz Peirano (Universidad de Chile, Chile) and Fernando Ramos Arenas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spanien) on Ingmar Bergman from an audience perspective.

Previously, Jono Van Belle has worked on the project Swedish Cinema and Everyday Life: A study of cinema-going in its peak and decline, headed by Åsa Jernudd, and on Digiscreens with Prof. Dr. Maria Jansson.

Her research interests include: new cinema history, transnational film culture, audience reception, feminism, streaming platforms.

Van Belle is on the management team for ECREA's film studies section.

Background and Community Outreach/Collaboration

Jono Van Belle has a technical background in film-making. She has worked as a television reporter for the nationally acclaimed television program Man Bijt Hond in Belgium, as an editor for news and sports at the Belgian public broadcaster VRT, and as producer Creative and Design at the transnational corporation Viacom (at MTV). Van Belle still cooperates regularly on short film projects as writer, director, and editor.

Active projects

Completed projects

Swedish Cinema and Everyday Life: A study of cinema-going in its peak and decline

Research groups

Moving Images and Screen Cultures (MISC)

Publications

Articles in journals

Jansson, M. & Van Belle, J. (2025). The politics of constructing television audiences: Diversity, equality and inclusion in Swedish media policy. Convergence. The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. [BibTeX]
Jansson, M. & Van Belle, J. (2024). Markets as free speech providers and political resignation: Swedish (non)regulation of streaming platforms. Journal of Digital Media and Policy, 15 (2), 279-295. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. & Jernudd, Å. (2024). Methodological reflections on the use of memories and oral sources in media-historical research in the Nordic/Baltic region: A case study on cinemagoing in Sweden. Baltic Screen Media Review, 12 (1). [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. , Lietaert, J. & Joye, S. (2023). "I think women can do anything": Postfeminist Sensibilities and the Male Gaze in Charlie's Angels (2019). Observatorio (OBS*), 17 (2), 264-280. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. & Jernudd, Å. (2023). Remembering television as a new medium: Conceptual boundaries and connections. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 13 (1), 67-81. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2022). Text/Author/Audience: Audience Reception of Ingmar Bergman and His Films. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 42 (4), 686-706. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2022). The seventh art? Art cinema and Ingmar Bergman from an audience perspective. Studies in European Cinema, 19 (1), 19-34. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2019). Re-conceptualizing Ingmar Bergman's status as auteur du cinema. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 22 (1), 3-17. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2018). The everyday life of auteurs du cinema: the reception of Ingmar Bergman and his films. Participations, 15 (2), 135-153. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. & Cuelenaere, E. (2017). Changing love in ‘Scener ur ett Äktenskap’ (Ingmar Bergman, 1973). TijdSchrift voor Skandinavistiek, 35 (1), 71-84. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2015). A cross-cultural approach to Brokeback Mountain. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 17 (2). [BibTeX]

Articles, book reviews

Van Belle, J. (2018). Book review: Screening the Sixties. Hollywood cinema and the politics of memory. Communications: the European Journal of Communication Research, 43 (1), 131-132. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2018). Book Review: Transnational audiences: media reception on a global scale. Communications: the European Journal of Communication Research, 43 (2), 283-285. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2017). Book Review: Television and Romance: Studies, Observations and Interpretations. Communications: the European Journal of Communication Research, 42 (2), 274-275. [BibTeX]

Articles, reviews/surveys

Van Belle, J. , Aitaki, G. & Jansson, M. (2025). Audiovisual fiction and democracy: A systematic literature review. Nordicom Review, 46 (s1), 55-83. [BibTeX]

Chapters in books

Arenas, F. , Van Belle, J. & Peirano, M. (2025). Conclusion: Three levels to recapitulate Bergman's film-cultural relevance. In: Jono Van Belle; Fernando Ramos Arenas; María Paz Peirano, Ingmar Bergman out of focus: film cultures and international reception (pp. 215-221). New York: Berghahn Books. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2025). "I wouldn’t want to live there!" Imagining the Nordics through Ingmar Bergman’s films. In: Daniel Humphrey; Hamish Ford, A Companion to Ingmar Bergman (pp. 176-186). London: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc.. [BibTeX]
Arenas, F. , Van Belle, J. & Peirano, M. (2025). Introduction. In: Jono Van Belle; Fernando Ramos Arenas; María Paz Peirano, Ingmar Bergman out of focus: film cultures and international reception (pp. 1-15). New York: Berghahn Books. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2025). Off the beaten track: Birgitta steene's pioneering reception research on Ingmar Bergman. In: Jono Van Belle; Fernando Ramos Arenas; María Paz Peirano, Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus: Film Cultures and International Reception (pp. 16-36). New York: Berghahn Books. [BibTeX]
Jernudd, Å. & Van Belle, J. (2024). Managing Constraints and Stories of Freedom: Comparing Cinema Memories from the 1950s and 1960s in Sweden. In: Daniela Treveri Gennari; Lies Van De Vijver; Pierluigi Ercole, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative New Cinema Histories (pp. 147-172). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2022). Love: Interpretative Film Strategy. In: Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech; Mateusz Sobiech, Mediatisation of emotional life (pp. 75-90). . Routledge. [BibTeX]

Collections (editor)

Van Belle, J. (ed.) , Ramos Arenas, F. (ed.) & Peirano Olate, M. P. (ed.) (2025). Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus: Film Cultures and International Reception. New York: Berghahn Books. [BibTeX]

Conference papers

Aitaki, G. , Jansson, M. & Van Belle, J. (2024). Audiovisual fiction and democracy. Paper presented at Media Frictions International Symposium, Jönköping, Sweden, May 2-3, 2024. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. & Jansson, M. (2023). Audiences in Policy. Paper presented at VIII Baltic Sea Region Film Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania, October 20-21, 2023. [BibTeX]
Jansson, M. & Van Belle, J. (2023). Comparing variations in the implementation of EU regulations of streaming platforms. Paper presented at Methods in Cultural Production and Media Industries Research Conference (organised by the ECREA Section Media Industries and Cultural Production), Online, October 12, 2023. [BibTeX]
Jernudd, Å. & Van Belle, J. (2022). How are conceptual boundaries of different media crossed and upheld in cinema memories? An analysis of European audiences’ talk about television in the 1950s. In: Book of Abstracts HoMER 2022 Conference. Paper presented at Annual Conference HOMER (History of Moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception), Rome, Italy, July 5-8, 2022. (pp. 48-49). [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. , Peirano, M. P. & Ramos Arenas, F. (2022). Ingmar Bergman Out Of Focus. In: Book of Abstracts HoMER 2022 Conference. Paper presented at Annual Conference HOMER (History of Moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception), Rome, Italy, July 5-8, 2022. (pp. 29-30). [BibTeX]
Jernudd, Å. & Van Belle, J. (2021). Before and After Television: Comparing Memories of Cinemagoing in a Region of Sweden Where Cinema Flourished. Paper presented at HoMER-networks annual international conference, “Integrating Traditions”, hosted by Maynooth University, Dublin, Ireland (online conference), May 25-28, 2021. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2021). Films and authorship in memories, a case study of Ingmar Bergman. Paper presented at HoMER-networks annual international conference, “Integrating Traditions”, Maynooth University, Dublin, Ireland (online conference), May 25-28, 2021. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2019). Cinema-going and Ingmar Bergman in Sweden and Belgium. Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschappen, Nijmegen, Netherlands, February 7-8, 2019. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2019). Potential and Actual Interpretative strategies. Paper presented at Research Methods in Film Studies: Challenges and Opportunities, Ghent, Belgium, October 18-19, 2019. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2019). Storifying oral history on cinema-going and Ingmar Bergman in Sweden and Belgium. Paper presented at Structures and Voices: Storytelling in Post-Digital Times (NECS 2019), University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland, June 13-15, 2019. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2017). Film Studies History as Interpretative Strategies in (Historical) Reception Study. Paper presented at XV MAGIS – Gorizia International Film Studies Spring School, Gorizia, Italy, March 29 - April 1, 2017. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2017). Reading the audience: viewer psychologies in film studies and their consequences for reception studies. Paper presented at NECS, Paris, France, June 29 - July 1, 2017. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2016). The Success of the Auteur: what we can learn from Foucault and Bourdieu about Ingmar Bergman as an auteur du cinema. Paper presented at ECREA, Prague, Czech Republic, November 9-12, 2016. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2014). Circling the mountain: an investigation into the narrative boundaries of film criticism on Brokeback Mountain. Paper presented at Etmaal van de communicatiewetenschappen, Wageningen, Nederland, February 3-4, 2014. [BibTeX]

Doctoral theses, monographs

Van Belle, J. (2019). Scenes from an Audience: The auteur and the film text in audience experiences: Ingmar Bergman – a case study. (Doctoral dissertation). Ghent and Stockholm: Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University. [BibTeX]