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Images of Dutchness : popular visual culture, early cinema, and the emergence of a national cliché, 1800-1914

Title
Images of Dutchness : popular visual culture, early cinema, and the emergence of a national cliché, 1800-1914 / Sarah Dellmann.
Author
Dellmann, Sarah
Publication
  • Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
  • ©2018

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421 pages : illustrations (some colour); 24 cm.
Summary
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.
Series Statement
Framing film
Uniform Title
Framing film (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-387) and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Analysing Images of Dutchness: From Stereotype to National Cliche -- 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 -- 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 -- 3. Images of People and Places Before 1800: A Prehistory of National Cliches -- 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 -- 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 Cliche (1890 -- 1900) -- 4.7. Playing with the Cliche (c. 1900 -- 1914) -- 4.8. Dutch Cliches 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 -- 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 -- 5.3.1. Voyage Pittoresque dans la Frise (1839) -- 5.3.2. Dutch Life in Town and Country (1901) -- 5.3.3. "A North Holland Cheese Market" (1910) -- 5.3.4. Advertising Trade Cards: Myrrholin Welt Panorama (1902) -- 5.3.5. Film: Comment se fait le from age de Hollande (1909) -- 5.4. The Panoramic Pattern -- 5.4.1. Voyage pittoresque dans le Royaume des Pays-Bas (1822/1825) -- 5.4.2. Advertising Trade Cards: Holland in Wort und Bild (1903) -- 5.4.3. Stereocards: Holland (1905) -- 5.4.4. Films: De dam te Amsterdam omstreeks 1900 (1900) & De Amsterdamse Beurs omstreeks 1900 (1900) -- 5.5. The Virtual Travel Pattern -- 5.5.1. Voyage Pittoresque en Hollande et en Belgique (1857) -- 5.5.2. "Croquis Hollandais" (1905) and "Door Holland met pen en camera" (1906) -- 5.5.3. Lantern Slide Set: Quer durch Holland {1906) -- 5.5.4. Films: Prinsengracht (1899), A Pretty Dutch Town (1910), and Vita d'Olanda (1911) -- 5.6. Conclusion -- 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 Cliche 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 Cliche -- 6.10. Conclusion -- 7. Conclusion -- 7.1. Towards an Archaeology of Filming "the Nation/al" -- 7.2. Outlook.
Call Number
MFL 19-2170
ISBN
  • 9789462983007
  • 9462983003
OCLC
1019667243
Author
Dellmann, Sarah, author.
Title
Images of Dutchness : popular visual culture, early cinema, and the emergence of a national cliché, 1800-1914 / Sarah Dellmann.
Publisher
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Framing film
Framing film (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-387) and index.
Research Call Number
MFL 19-2170
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