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Humour and irony in Dutch post-war fiction film
Peter Verstraten
2016
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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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Keywords
- Dutch cinema
- Film theory & criticism
- Film Theory and Criticism
- Film, TV & radio
- Films, cinema
- grotesque
- Humour
- Irony
- KUnlatched
- Media & Communications
- Media and Communications
- Netherlands
- postwar fiction films
- The arts
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticism
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DOI: 10.5117/9789089649430Editions
