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Kinkhouwers, Diantha Gervaise (2014)

Oriëntalisme in de Nederlandse media: Submission en Fitna

Master thesis | Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (MSc)

In 2004, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Theo van Gogh made the anti-Islam film Submission. Four years later, Geert Wilders published his own anti-Islam film, Fitna. These movies were both a reason for and a consequence of a Dutch sociopolitical climate in which anti-Islam sentiments were widely spread. Using academic literature about orientalism, media and gender, such as described by Edward Said as well as many others, I researched the use of orientalist characteristics in representing Muslims and the Islam in both of these movies, paying attention to the texts, visual aspects and implications of the films, as well as looking at the intentions of the makers and the place of the movies in the wider Dutch context.

orientalism

media

Netherlands

islam

Submission

Fitna

gender

representation

Author

Kinkhouwers, Diantha Gervaise

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Specialisation

BA Cultural anthropology and development sociology

Supervisors

Laan, Nina ter

ECTS Credits

10

Language

nl