This book investigates the roots of Dutch visual clichés in popular visual media, offring new insights into the emergance of national clichés and the study of stereotypical thinking.

Dellmann Sarah :

Sarah Dellmann worked as researcher and lecturer at Utrecht University, University of Groningen and Amsterdam University College, the Netherlands. Her main research interests lie in the field of early cinema studies as well as visual history and culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a focus on Western media history.

Longlisted for the 2019 Kraszna-Krausz Best Moving Image Book Award!

"The seven chapters of the book are neatly organised. Each chapter is richly illustrated with colourful reproductions of the broad variety of visual material. [...] The daring research on meaning production through different media present in her book will certainly be taken into account when thinking about future digitalisation of archive collections."
- Marte Van Hassel, Université Libre de Bruxelles, TMG Journal for Media History, 22, 1 (2019)

"This book is valuable for several reasons, last but not least for its cutting-edge approach to the question of the representation of "national identity" from a visual and cultural angle."
- Annie van den Oever, University of Groningen / University of the Free State