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Author Peter Verstraten

Peter Verstraten

Peter Verstraten is an Assistant Professor in Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University. He is an author of among others Film Narratology and Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film.

Moonlight as a ‘Mass Art’ Film

Peter Verstraten
October 2019
This is what defined cinema in the 2010s
Given his interest in paradoxes, the French philosopher Alain Badiou dubbed cinema a ‘mass art’, although not every film can be categorised in this way. On the one hand, many movies are above all commercial far...

Valeska Grisebach’s Western: an unacknowledged remake of Samuel Fuller’s Run of the Arrow

Peter Verstraten
June 2018
Feature Articles
The oddest thing about Western (2017), the third feature film by the German director Valeska Grisebach after Mein Stern (Be My Star, 2001) and Sehnsucht (Longing, 2006), is its title. Borrowing neither an origi...
Roskam Feature Image

Le Fidèle as a Postmodern Love Romance: The Flemish Crime Dramas of Michaël R. Roskam

Peter Verstraten
March 2018
Feature Articles
Because of the almost insurmountable linguistic barrier between Flemish in Flanders and French in Wallonia, the history of twentieth-century Belgian cinema is best seen as a ‘split screen’ between two language ...
Brimstone

Fortunate Sinners: Martin Koolhoven’s Brimstone as an ‘Edam’ Western

Peter Verstraten
June 2017
Feature Articles
Between 1999 and 2008, the Dutch director Martin Koolhoven made eight feature films, none like any of the others. In 2005 he shot the multicultural rom-com Het schnitzelparadijs (Kitchen Paradise), about a Moro...
Elle

A French Connection: Paul Verhoeven’s Elle in Tandem with Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game

Peter Verstraten
December 2016
Feature Articles
Over the course of his long career, the Dutch director Paul Verhoeven has been at the centre of many a success and many a controversy. His second feature film, Turks fruit (Turkish Delight, 1973), is still the ...

Middle-of-the-Road Absurdism: The Cinema of Dutch Director Alex van Warmerdam

Peter Verstraten
March 2014
Feature Articles
Practically all published items on Borgman (2013), no matter how tiny, mentioned the fact that this was the first Dutch film to enter the Cannes main competition since 1975, the year Jos Stelling’s debut featur...

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