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Humour and irony in Dutch post-war fiction film
- Title
- Humour and irony in Dutch post-war fiction film / Peter Verstraten.
- Author
- Verstraten, Peter
- Publication
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- 410 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.
- Summary
- If Dutch cinema is examined in academic studies, the focus is usually on pre-war films or on documentaries, but the post-war fiction film has been sporadically addressed. Many popular box-office successes have been steeped in jokes on parochial conflicts, vulgar behavior and/or on sexual display, towards which Dutch people have often felt ambivalent. At the same time, something like a 'Hollandse school', a term first coined in the 1980s, has manifested itself more firmly, with the work of Alex van Warmerdam, pervaded in deadpan irony as its biggest eye-catcher. Using seminal theories of humor and irony as an angle, this study scrutinizes a great number of Dutch films on the basis of categories such as low-class comedies; neurotic romances; deliberate camp; cosmic irony, or grotesque satire. Hence, Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film makes surprising connections between films from various decades: Flodder and New Kids Turbo; Spetters and Simon; Rent a Friend and Ober; De verloedering van de Swieps and Borgman; Black Out and Plan C.
- This study examines a range of Dutch post-war fiction films and also works as an implicit overview on the basis of types of humour, like low-class comedy, neurotic romances; deliberate camp, homosocial jokes, cosmic irony, grotesque satire. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
- Series Statement
- Framing film
- Uniform Title
- Framing film (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- This work is licensed under the following Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
- ISBN
- 9789089649430
- 9089649433
- 9789048528370
- 9048528372
- 9790000000000 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2016390249
- 605038
- OCLC
- ocn921865864
- 921865864
- SCSB-13567632
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries