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Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade
The Netherlands Film Museum's Desmet Collection contains the estate of Dutch cinema owner and film distributor Jean Desmet (1875-1956): almost nine hundred European and American films of all genres, a collection of publicity material, and a massive business archive. These three sources form the basis of this book, the first comprehensive reconstruction of Desmet's career. From his nomadic beginnings as a traveling showman to his successful switch to permanent cinema operation and film distribution, Blom shows how Desmet's fortunes encapsulated a series of structural changes within the new culture of the cinema.
Film museum practice and film historiography
This book is an elaborate study of the interrelationships between film historical discourse and archival practices, such as the collecting, restoration and exhibition of films. It delineates how film historiographical discourses always leave traces in the film archive, and vice versa. The book investigates and analyzes the history of three important collections from the archive of EYE Film Museum: the Uitkijk-collection, the Desmet-collection, and Dutch silent films. The histories of these collections have different connections to film historiography, and as such allow us to investigate these interrelationships from various perspectives. It shows how archival films and collections always carry the historical traces of selection policies, restoration philosophies, and exhibition strategies. As such the book aims to demonstrate how film archives cannot be innocent or neutral sources of film history. In addition, it shows that current EYE Film Museum activities semi-automatically refer to this history of which the archive carries the material traces.
The Human Dutch
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Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade
"Since 1957, the Netherlands Film Museum in Amsterdam has been in possession of the Desmet Collection, which contains the estate of the Dutch cinema owner and film distributor Jean Desmet (1875-1956). The history of this strangely retiring 'showman' offers not simply an abstract of an individual character and his personal ambitions and motivations, but also epitomises the transformation of cinema into a distinctively modern industry. Between 1907 and 1916, the world of cinema experienced radical structural change, which Desmet not only witnessed but also helped to bring about. Given the insufficiencies of Dutch film production, Desmet became a link between film production abroad and film exhibition in the Netherlands." "In this study, Ivo Blom uses the career of Jean Desmet as a means of exploring the history of cinema from the ground-level perspective of film distribution and exhibition. His sociologically nuanced, copiously illustrated and scrupulously documented story of 'Citizen Desmet' swells into an epic narrative of early urban cinema culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Dutch Post-War Fiction Film Through a Lens of Psychoanalysis
I started examining Dutch fiction features for the simple reason that these films are 'orphans' in an academic context. Dutch cinema is unchartered territory at the curricula in Dutch universities. Hopefully, this study - in tandem with the previous one on humour and irony - will trigger other scholars to explore the terrain of Dutch (fiction) cinema in the near future. In addition to that, it would be great if a study like mine could offer some support to initiatives such as the occasional screenings and programs in EYE Amsterdam dedicated to Dutch cinema (Pim de la Parra, Frans Weisz, George Sluizer, restored prints of Wim Verstappen, to mention some of these initiatives). Moreover, I have...
Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film
This study examines a range of Dutch post-war fiction films and also works as an implicit overview on the basis of types of humour, like low-class comedy, neurotic romances; deliberate camp, homosocial jokes, cosmic irony, grotesque satire. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
The Greatest Films Never Seen
Orphan works, or artworks for which no copyright holder is traceable, pose a growing problem for museums, archives, and other heritage institutions. As they come under more and more pressure to digitize and share their archives, they are often hampered by the uncertain rights status of items in their collections. The Greatest Films Never Seen: The Film Archive and the Copyright Smokescreen uses the prism of copyright to reconsider human agency and the politics of the archive, and asks what the practical implications are for educational institutions, the creative industries, and the general public. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.
Film and Television Collections in Europe
Published in 1995, "Film & Television" is an important contribution to Film and Media.
