Amsterdamned Global Village
In “Amsterdamned Global Village,” Jaap Kooijman explores the cityscape by analyzing films that are set in Amsterdam, including Amsterdamned, Do Not Disturb, Turkish Delight, Naked over the Fence, Shouf Shouf Habibi!, and Amsterdam Global Village. This eclectic collection of Dutch films functions as a cinematic site of karaoke Americanism, revealing how cinema connects different strands through both time and place, across a variety of genres, thereby providing an entrance into the multilayered cityscape of pop-cultural appropriation and the dominant presence of Hollywood in our everyday lives. “Amsterdamned Global Village” is included in Mind the Screen, edited by Jaap Kooijman, Patricia Pisters, and Wanda Strauven.
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