Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film
ISBN: 9789048528370
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Amsterdam University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Art & Art History ; Film Studies ; Communication Studies;

Dutch cinema, when discussed, is typically treated only in terms of pre-war films or documentaries, leaving post-war fictional film largely understudied. At the same time, a "Hollandse school," a term first coined in the 1980s, has developed through deadpan, ironic films like those of director and actor Alex van Warmerdam. 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. With its original approach, this study makes surprising connections between Dutch films from various decades.

Dr. Peter Verstraten is Assistant Professor Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University. He has published among others Film Narratology (Toronto, 2009) - a Chinese translation is forthcoming - and Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film (Amsterdam, 2016). He is a regular contributor to Senses of Cinema

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