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oapen-20.500.12657-244202024-03-22T19:23:23Z Images of Dutchness: Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché Dellmann, Sarah 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 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. 2019-10-23 23:55 2020-03-27 15:48:21 2020-04-01T09:57:56Z 2020-04-01T09:57:56Z 2018 book 1005695 OCN: 1104299128 9789462983007 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24420 eng Framing Film application/pdf n/a 1005695.pdf http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_home&l=2 Amsterdam University Press 10.2307/j.ctv7r420j 10.2307/j.ctv7r420j dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 9789462983007 340 Amsterdam open access
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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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