Het bioscoopjournaal als bemiddelaar tussen traditie en moderniteit. Polygoons HOLLANDS NIEUWS reportages over Groningen, 1921-1939

The Newsreel as a Mediator between Tradition and Modernity: Polygoon 's HOLLANDS NIEUWS items on Groningen, 1921-1959The role that the city of Groningen played as a subject in the national newsreel HOLLANDS NIEUWS was an ambivalent one. On a local level (the local audience as well as the Groningen newspapers), most attention was paid to the values of entertainment and recognition (of the locals on the screen by the audience). This was coherent with the strategy of Polygoon to issue motion pictures with a high commercial potential. In this way the local audience could more or less share in the... Mehr ...