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Images of Dutchness : Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliche, 1800-1914, PDF eBook

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

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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?

Images of Dutchness investigates the roots of this visual repertoire from diverse sources, 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.This richly illustrated book provides an in-depth study of the fascinating corpus of popular visual media and their written comments that are studied for the first time.

Through the combined analysis of words and images, the author identifies not only what has been considered Ytypically DutchΠin the long nineteenth century, but also provides new insights into the logic and emergence of national cliches in the Western world.

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