Een prul een prul noemen. Filmkritiek in twee Nederlandse dagbladen 1910-1922

To call a bad picture by its name. Film criticism in two Dutch newspapers 1910-1922The period before L.J. Jordaan started writing his famous column in 1923, the Netherlands were considered to be void of'serious' film criticism. This was partly because of the strong influence of the Nederlandsche Filmliga (the Dutch Film league), which prescribed its own artistic criteria in deciding what movies took precedence over others. However, close-examination of two Dutch national newspapers (Het Algemeen Handelsblad and De Telegraaf) in the decade prior to Jordaan's column shows that between 1910-1922... Mehr ...