Images of Dutchness : popular visual culture, early cinema, and the emergence of a national cliché, 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? Where do such visual clichés come from? This study investigates the roots of this imagery in popul...

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