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

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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Hoofdauteur: Dellmann, Sarah
Formaat: Online
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Amsterdam University Press 2021
Onderwerpen:
The arts: general issues
Electronic, holographic & video art
Media studies
Film history, theory & criticism
Other performing arts
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFK Non-graphic and electronic art forms::AFKV Digital, video and new media arts
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticism
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Samenvatting: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 popular visual media ranging from magazines to tourist brochures, from anthropological treatises to advertising trade cards, stereoscopic photographs, picture postcards, magic lantern slide sets and films of early cinema. The book provides an in-depth study of this rich and fascinating corpus of popular visual media that has not been studied before, and the discourses that these images were meant to illustrate. This intermedial approach offers new insights into the emergence of national clichés and the study of stereotypical thinking.

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