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 popul...

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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, [2018]
©[2018]
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Framing film (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Physical Description:1 online resource (421 pages) :; illustrations.
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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