Description
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 DutchOE in the long nineteenth century, but also provides new insights into the logic and emergence of national cliches in the Western world.
About the Author
Sarah Dellmann worked as researcher and lecturer at Utrecht University, University of Groningen and Amsterdam University College, the Netherlands. Her main research interests lie in the field of early cinema studies as well as visual history and culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a focus on Western media history.
Reviews
Longlisted for the 2019 Kraszna-Krausz Best Moving Image Book Award!
"The seven chapters of the book are neatly organised. Each chapter is richly illustrated with colourful reproductions of the broad variety of visual material. [...] The daring research on meaning production through different media present in her book will certainly be taken into account when thinking about future digitalisation of archive collections."
- Marte Van Hassel, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, TMG Journal for Media History, 22, 1 (2019)
"This book is valuable for several reasons, last but not least for its cutting-edge approach to the question of the representation of "national identity" from a visual and cultural angle."
- Annie van den Oever, University of Groningen / University of the Free State
Book Information
ISBN 9789462983007
Author Sarah Dellmann
Format Paperback
Page Count 424
Imprint Amsterdam University Press
Publisher Amsterdam University Press
Series Framing Film
About the Author
Sarah Dellmann worked as researcher and lecturer at Utrecht University, University of Groningen and Amsterdam University College, the Netherlands. Her main research interests lie in the field of early cinema studies as well as visual history and culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a focus on Western media history.
Reviews
Longlisted for the 2019 Kraszna-Krausz Best Moving Image Book Award!
"The seven chapters of the book are neatly organised. Each chapter is richly illustrated with colourful reproductions of the broad variety of visual material. [...] The daring research on meaning production through different media present in her book will certainly be taken into account when thinking about future digitalisation of archive collections."
- Marte Van Hassel, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, TMG Journal for Media History, 22, 1 (2019)
"This book is valuable for several reasons, last but not least for its cutting-edge approach to the question of the representation of "national identity" from a visual and cultural angle."
- Annie van den Oever, University of Groningen / University of the Free State
Book Information
ISBN 9789462983007
Author Sarah Dellmann
Format Paperback
Page Count 424
Imprint Amsterdam University Press
Publisher Amsterdam University Press
Series Framing Film
Details
Subtitle: |
Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliche, 1800-1914 |
Series: |
Framing Film |
Imprint: |
Amsterdam University Press |
