Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film.
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, to...
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| Format: | Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Amsterdam University Press
2016.
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| Series: | Framing film (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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 title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (480 pages)) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789048528370 9048528372 9789089649430 9089649433 |