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Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film

  • Peter Verstraten
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2016
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Using seminal theories on humour and comedy, this book explores a number of Dutch films using the notion of categories, such as low-class comedies, neurotic romances, deliberate camp, and grotesque satire.

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Verstraten Peter :

Peter Verstraten is Assistant Professor of Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University. His publications include Film Narratology (2009) and Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film (2016). Together with directors of photography Richard van Oosterhout and Maarten van Rossem, he co-edited Shooting Time (2012), a volume on cinematography. He is a regular contributor to Senses of Cinema.

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eBook published on:
October 22, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9789048528370
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
426
Illustrations:
29
Coloured Illustrations:
29
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048528370
eBook ISBN: 9789048528370
Keywords for this book
Dutch cinema - postwar fiction films - humour - irony - grotesque
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Professional and scholarly;
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BY-NC 4.0
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