Images of Dutchness : : Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché, 1800-1914.

• Superior document: Framing Film Series
• Author: Dellmann, Sarah.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2018.; {copy}2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Framing Film Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (423 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Images of Dutchness: An Introduction -- Chapter 1. Analysing Images of Dutchness: From Stereotype to National Cliché -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Supposed Common Knowledge and the Stereotype -- 1.3 Nationality, Nationalism, Nationness: The Netherlands, Dutch, Dutchness -- 1.4 Approaches -- 1.5 Outlook -- Chapter 2. Spectacularly Dutch: Popular Visual Media from Print to Early Cinema -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Illustrated Magazines -- 2.3 Travel Guidebooks -- 2.4 Travel brochures, Leaflets, and Promotional Material for (Potential) Tourists -- 2.5 Sets of Prints, Cartes de Visite, and Cabinet Cards of People in Local Costume -- 2.6 Catchpenny Prints -- 2.7 Perspective Prints -- 2.8 Advertising Trade Cards -- 2.9 Stereoscopic Photographs -- 2.10 Magic Lanterns and Lantern Slide Sets -- 2.11 Picture Postcards -- 2.12 Film -- 2.13 Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Images of People and Places before 1800: A Prehistory of National Clichés -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Visual Culture before Industrialization -- 3.3 The Same Image at Various Places for the First Time: Images of People and Places in Popular Print -- 3.4 Epistemological Status of Images of People and Places -- 3.5 Topographical Images: Vedute, Prospects, and Perspective Prints -- 3.6 Realist Images of People in Popular Media: Catchpenny Prints -- 3.7 Eighteenth-Century Images of People and Places in Other Popular Media -- 3.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Authentically Dutch: Images in Anthropological Discourse -- 4.1 Introduction: Snelleman's Conceptual Problem -- 4.2 Visual Spectacle of Ethnic Diversity: Afbeeldingen van Kleeding, zeden, en gewoonten (1803-1807) -- 4.3 Relics of Tradition, Grounded in Space: Nederlandsche Kleederdrachten, en Zeden en Gebruiken (1849-1850).

4.4 The Nation in One Image: Volkeren van Verscheyde Landgewesten (c. 1833 or 1856-1900) and In deze prent zullen de kinderen opmerken... (c. 1800-1820) -- 4.5 Narrowing down the Motifs: Popular Photographs (1870-1890s) -- 4.6 Fixing the National Cliché (1890-1900) -- 4.7 Playing with the Cliché (c. 1900-1914) -- 4.8 Dutch Clichés of Dutch Origin: Trade Cards by Philips and Bensdorp -- 4.9 "Dutch" as Combination of Costume and "Race -- 4.10 Early Cinema's Heritage of Anthropological Discourse -- 4.11 Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Typically Dutch: Images in Popular Geography and Armchair Travel Media -- 5.1 Introduction: Geography and Popular Science -- 5.2 Patterns for the Presentation of Knowledge in Geographical Discourse -- 5.3 The Encyclopaedic Pattern -- 5.4 The Panoramic Pattern -- 5.5 The Virtual Travel Pattern -- 5.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Selling a "Dutch Experience": Images in Tourism and Consumer Culture -- 6.1 Introduction: Discovering the Authentic -- 6.2 Before Tourism: Travel in Leisure through and to the Netherlands -- 6.3 Travel Promotion by Thomas Cook & Son, the VVV, and the Centraal Bureau -- 6.4 Narrated and Practical Guidebooks -- 6.5 The Cliché in Consumer Culture: Dutchness in Advertising Trade Cards -- 6.6 Picture Postcards -- 6.7 Lantern Slide Sets -- 6.8 Film -- 6.9 Ways of Looking at Dutchness: Reactions to the Cliché -- 6.10 Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- 7.1 Towards an Archaeology of Filming "the Nation/al -- 7.2 Outlook -- Bibliography -- Published Sources -- Other Sources and Ephemera by Medium -- Digital Resources -- List of Figures -- Index.