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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dellmann, Sarah.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Framing Film Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Images of Dutchness: An Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Analysing Images of Dutchness: From Stereotype to National Cliché
  • 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
  • Chapter 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
  • 2.13 Conclusion
  • Chapter 3. Images of People and Places before 1800: A Prehistory of National Clichés
  • 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
  • Chapter 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 Cliché (1890-1900)
  • 4.7 Playing with the Cliché (c. 1900-1914)
  • 4.8 Dutch Clichés 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
  • Chapter 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
  • 5.4 The Panoramic Pattern
  • 5.5 The Virtual Travel Pattern
  • 5.6 Conclusion
  • Chapter 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 Cliché 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 Cliché
  • 6.10 Conclusion
  • Chapter 7. Conclusion
  • 7.1 Towards an Archaeology of Filming "the Nation/al
  • 7.2 Outlook
  • Bibliography
  • Published Sources
  • Other Sources and Ephemera by Medium
  • Digital Resources
  • List of Figures
  • Index.

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