| Description |
1 online resource (410 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Framing film |
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Framing film (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
Preface; Introduction; 1. Low-Class Comedies; 2. Multicultural Comedies; 3. From 'Kind-hearted' Comedies to Neurotic Romances; 4. Deliberate Camp; 5. Humour as an Aftermath Effect; 6. Homosocial Jokes; 7. From Ludic Humour to Cosmic Irony; 8. From Insubordinate ƯPlayfulness to Subversive Irony; 9. From Grotesque Caricature to Grotesque Satire; Conclusion. |
| Subject |
Comedy films.
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Motion pictures, Dutch.
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Dutch wit and humor.
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Comedy films. (OCoLC)fst00869095
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Netherlands. (OCoLC)fst01204034
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PERFORMING ARTS / Reference.
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ART / General.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: (DLC) 2016390249 (OCoLC)921865864 |
| ISBN |
9789048528370 (e-ISBN) |
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9048528372 |
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9789089649430 (cloth) |
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9089649433 (cloth) |
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