This book offers a rich exploration of the cinematic aesthetics that filmmakers devised to reflect the corporeal and affective experience of walking in the city. Winner of the 2023 Best Book Award from the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA).
Made up of both material and symbolic elements, the urban space is always dynamic and transitional; it brings together or separates the past and the... Læs mere
This volume engages with a range of important debates including: the relationship between war and state... Læs mere
The book identifies to what extent it is possible to speak of a democratization of knowledge in Renaissance Italy.
This book is about postcolonial memory in the Netherlands. This term refers to conflicts in contemporary society about how the colonial past should be remembered.
When the mind turns more than one would wish towards questions of – as W.G. Sebald puts it – the “natural history of destruction”, comparative... Læs mere
The goal of the volume is to approach Visigothic customs not as an uncritical adoption and imitatio of contemporary Roman models (an acculturation model), but as unique interpretations of a common pool of symbols, practices, and institutions that formed the legacy of Rome. T
This book places the discourse surrounding stigmata within the visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods, with a particular focus on Italy and on female stigmatics.
The paradox of ornament and monstrosity launches an array of thought-provoking perspectives on sixteenth-century visual art by targeting its ambiguous artificiality and moments of anxiety.
Leading international scholars present analysis and case studies from different cultural settings, East and West, exploring... Læs mere
This anthology is organized in five sections: Creative Practices; Digital Diasporas and Placemaking; Affect and Belonging;... Læs mere