تصاویر هلندی: فرهنگ بصری محبوب، سینمای اولیه و ظهور یک کلیشه ملی، 1800-1914

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 Ÿtypically DutchŒ in the long nineteenth century, but also provides new insights into the logic and emergence of national clichés in the Western world. 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 Table Of Contents Acknowledgements Images Of Dutchness: An Introduction 1 Analysing Images Of Dutchness: From Stereotype To National Cliché 2 Spectacularly Dutch: Popular Visual Media From Print To Early Cinema 3 Images Of People And Places Before 1800: A Prehistory Of National Clichés 4 Authentically Dutch: Images In Anthropological Discourse 5 Typically Dutch: Images In Popular Geography And Armchair Travel Media 6 Selling A “Dutch Experience”: Images In Tourism And Consumer Culture 7 Conclusion Bibliography Published Sources Other Sources And Ephemera By Medium Digital Ressources List Of Figures Index This book investigates the roots of Dutch visual clichés in popular visual media, offring new insights into the emergance of national clichés and the study of stereotypical thinking. This book investigates the roots of Dutch visual cliches in popular visual media, offring new insights into the emergance of national cliches and the study of stereotypical thinking.

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