Jean Desmet
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Content (English)
AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade
Ivo Blom
ISBN 978 90 5356 463 9 (paperback)
ISBN 978 90 5356 570 4 (hardback)
Published February 2003
Price € 39,95 (pb) / € 57, 95 (hb)
Format hardback/paperback, 19 x 24 cm
Page extent 480 pages, illustrated
Within the Film Culture in Transition series
Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade
Ivo Blom
ISBN 978 90 5356 463 9 (paperback)
ISBN 978 90 5356 570 4 (hardback)
Published February 2003
Price € 39,95 (pb) / € 57, 95 (hb)
Format hardback/paperback, 19 x 24 cm
Page extent 480 pages, illustrated
Within the Film Culture in Transition series
The book
Since 1957 the Netherlands Film Museum has been in possession of the estate of the Dutch cinema owner and film distributor Jean Desmet (1875-1956). The Desmet Collection comprises almost nine hundred European and American films of all genres, a collection of publicity material and a large business archive. These three sources form the basis of this 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. Desmet is not merely representative of the rise of the permanent movie house and the coming of the film distributor. This book shows how his fortunes also encapsulate a series of structural changes within the new culture of permanent cinema and film distribution.
Available in Europe through Plymbridge Distributors Ltd (www.plymbridge.com), and in the US and Canada through the University of Chicago Press (www.uchicago.press.edu). Available worldwide online at www.aup.nl
The author
Ivo Blom is assistant professor of film studies at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
International tour
In occasion of the release of this book and in collaboration with the German film historical journal KINtop, Ivo Blom presented films from the Desmet collection in the Spring of 2003 in Düsseldorf, Berlin, München, Groningen, Vienna, Frankfurt, Luxemburg en Brussels. In 2004 and 2005, he presented a Desmet film program and lecture in Turin, Milan, Stockholm and Gent.
Websites of the Desmet/Kintop show at the various film archives and film festivals:
Sacile:
Düsseldorf: [press release Landeshauptstadt]
Berlin:
München:
Nottingham:
Groningen:
Vienna:
Frankfurt: [Desmet show not visible anymore]
Luxemburg: [no site of the archive, only site of Trier university]
Brussels: [French version]
See also the KINtop website:
Since 1957 the Netherlands Film Museum has been in possession of the estate of the Dutch cinema owner and film distributor Jean Desmet (1875-1956). The Desmet Collection comprises almost nine hundred European and American films of all genres, a collection of publicity material and a large business archive. These three sources form the basis of this 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. Desmet is not merely representative of the rise of the permanent movie house and the coming of the film distributor. This book shows how his fortunes also encapsulate a series of structural changes within the new culture of permanent cinema and film distribution.
Available in Europe through Plymbridge Distributors Ltd (www.plymbridge.com), and in the US and Canada through the University of Chicago Press (www.uchicago.press.edu). Available worldwide online at www.aup.nl
The author
Ivo Blom is assistant professor of film studies at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
International tour
In occasion of the release of this book and in collaboration with the German film historical journal KINtop, Ivo Blom presented films from the Desmet collection in the Spring of 2003 in Düsseldorf, Berlin, München, Groningen, Vienna, Frankfurt, Luxemburg en Brussels. In 2004 and 2005, he presented a Desmet film program and lecture in Turin, Milan, Stockholm and Gent.
Websites of the Desmet/Kintop show at the various film archives and film festivals:
Sacile:
Düsseldorf: [press release Landeshauptstadt]
Berlin:
München:
Nottingham:
Groningen:
Vienna:
Frankfurt: [Desmet show not visible anymore]
Luxemburg: [no site of the archive, only site of Trier university]
Brussels: [French version]
See also the KINtop website: