Hollandse films met een Hollands hart. Nationale identiteit en de Jordaanfilms 1934-1936

“A Dutch film with a Dutch heart”, was the slogan used to promote DE JANTJES (Jaap Speyer,1934), the first successful Dutch feature sound film. Two other so called Jordaanfilms, BLEEKE BET (Richard Oswald & Alex Benno, 1934) and ORANJE HEIN (Max Nosseck, 1936) followed. These films were adaptations of theatre plays with the same names by Herman Bouber. This thesis asks three questions: What kind of representation of ‘Dutchness’ did these films offer to Dutch audiences? How did reviewers respond to these films? How successful were these films compared to other contemporary productions in th... Mehr ...