Images of occupation in Dutch film : memory, myth, and the cultural legacy of war /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Burke, Wendy, author.
Imprint:	Amsterdam : Eye Filmmuseum / Amsterdam University Press, [2017] ©2017
Description:	262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Framing Film Framing film (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Subject:	World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war. Motion pictures -- Netherlands -- History. Motion pictures. Netherlands -- In motion pictures. Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945. Netherlands. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11290403

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Other authors / contributors:	EYE Film Instituut Nederland, issuing body.
ISBN:	9789089648549 9089648542 9789048527090
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Images of Occupation in Dutch Film' is the first book in English to examine changing representations of the German wartime occupation of the Netherlands within Dutch post-war feature films made in the period 1962 to 1986. This important new study explores in detail the complex, evolving role played by film within Dutch cultural memory and asks to what extent film can fully embrace, transmit or assimilate the complexities and collective legacies of war and occupation. As Dutch public opinion towards the war altered over the post-war decades - attitudes to the 1940-1945 occupation, Jewish persecution, the enemy, deprivations, resistance and collaboration - so too shifted the presence - or indeed absence - of these elements in subsequent films. The historical trajectory of Dutch recovery and reconstruction: politically, economically and - most complex of all - psychologically, came to be revealed, often unconsciously, in the films from that time. Through detailed analyses of eight key film texts ranging from 1962's De Overval, to Verhoeven's Soldaat van Oranje and Rademakers' De Aanslag, this book offers valuable insights into the previously under-explored connections between filmic images of occupation and how these reflect parallel shifts in Dutch society's perceptions about the war at the times the films were made. It asks how a nation's films re-tell its history.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Representation, Occupation, and Dutch War Films
Representing the past: The case of film
Nationhood and identity
Myth and memory: The re-writing of history
The Netherlands and World War Two: German occupation
Post-war considerations
Dutch film history: An overview
Dutch war films: Historical and cultural perspectives
2. The Image of the Enemy
Who is the enemy?
The end of forgetting: The image of the enemy in the early 1960s
After the absence: War again on the agenda
Growing ambiguity: Portraying the occupiers in 1986
3. Dutch Identity and 'Dutchness'
Big skies, far horizons: Dutchnessin films from the early 1960s
Speaking the same language?: Blurred boundaries in 1977
Bitter cold, fading Communism: Portrayals from the 1980s
The legacy of the Dutch landscape in painting and in film
4. Life Under Occupation
We're all in this together: Images of family life in 1960s films
Division, suspicion, and the war against Dutch Jews
Fractured lives, crushed hopes: Trauma and the disintegration of family and friends in the 1980s
5. Resistance and Collaboration
Irresistible resistance: Heroic resistance in the 1960s
Pushing the boundaries: Collaboration breaks through, 1977-1978
Shattered myths, bleak truths: Assimilating collaboration and resistance in the 1980s and beyond
Conclusion
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Glossary of Dutch and German terms
Appendix. Top Dutch films by box office admissions
Index

Images of occupation in Dutch film : memory, myth, and the cultural legacy of war /

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