Images of Dutchness : Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché

Images of Dutchness : Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché / Sarah Dellmann.

Why do early films present the Netherlands as a country full of canals and windmills, where people wear traditional costumes and wooden shoes, while industries and modern urban life are all but absent? Where do such visual clichés come from? This study investigates the roots of this imagery in popu...

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Main Author: Dellmann, Sarah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] Amsterdam University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
National characteristics, Dutch.
Clichés in motion pictures.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) > Netherlands.
Electronic, holographic & video art.
Film theory & criticism.
The arts: general issues.
ART > General.
Clichés in motion pictures
Mass media
Motion pictures
National characteristics, Dutch
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures
Netherlands > In motion pictures.
Netherlands > In mass media.
Netherlands
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table Of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Images Of Dutchness: An Introduction
  • 1 Analysing Images Of Dutchness: From Stereotype To National Cliché
  • 2 Spectacularly Dutch: Popular Visual Media From Print To Early Cinema
  • 3 Images Of People And Places Before 1800: A Prehistory Of National Clichés
  • 4 Authentically Dutch: Images In Anthropological Discourse
  • 5 Typically Dutch: Images In Popular Geography And Armchair Travel Media
  • 6 Selling A "Dutch Experience": Images In Tourism And Consumer Culture
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Published Sources
  • Other Sources And Ephemera By Medium
  • Digital Ressources
  • List Of Figures
  • Index

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