Imagining Global Amsterdam : History, Culture, and Geography in a World City /

Imagining Global Amsterdambrings together new essays on the image of Amsterdam as articulated in film, literature, art, and urban discourse, considered within the context of globalization and its impact on urban culture. Subjects include: Amsterdam's place in global cultural memory; expressions...

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Otros Autores: Aalbers, Manuel B. (Contribuidor), Deinema, Michaël (Contribuidor), Denaci, Mark E. (Contribuidor), Dewulf, Jeroen (Contribuidor), Goggin, Joyce (Contribuidor), Louwerse, Henriette (Contribuidor), Mac, Bharain (Contribuidor), Pisters, Patricia (Contribuidor), Salor, Erinç (Contribuidor), Schmidt, Freek (Contribuidor), Sturkenboom, Dorothee (Contribuidor), Ufer, Ulrich (Contribuidor), Valenta, Markha (Contribuidor), Vanacker, Sabine (Contribuidor), Wintle, Michael (Contribuidor), de Waard, Marco (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2012]
Colección:Cities and Cultures
Temas:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Amsterdam and the Global Imaginary
  • Part I: Historicizing Global Amsterdam
  • 2. Imagining Social Change in Early-Modern Amsterdam: Global Processes, Local Perceptions
  • 3. Amidst Unscrupulous Neighbours: Amsterdam Money and Foreign Interests in Dutch Patriotic Imagery
  • 4. Visualizing Commerce and Empire: Decorating the Built Environment of Amsterdam
  • 5. Romance and Commerce: Imagining Global Amsterdam in the Contemporary Historical Novel
  • 6. Dutch Decline Redux: Remembering New Amsterdam in the Global and Cosmopolitan Novel
  • Part II: Amsterdam Global Village: (Inter)National Imaginings
  • 7. Form, Punch, Caress: Johan van der Keuken's Global Amsterdam
  • 8. Rembrandt on Screen: Art Cinema, Cultural Heritage, and the Museumization of Urban Space
  • 9. Imagining a Global Village: Amsterdam in Janwillem van de Wetering's Detective Fiction
  • 10. Amsterdam, City of Sirens: On Hafid Bouazza's Short Story 'Apolline'
  • Part III: Global Amsterdam's Cultural Geography
  • 11. Amsterdam and/as New Babylon: Urban Modernity's Contested Trajectories
  • 12. Amsterdam's Architectural Image from Early- Modern Print Series to Global Heritage Discourse
  • 13. Amsterdam Memorials, Multiculturalism, and the Debate on Dutch Identity
  • 14. Graphic Design, Globalization, and Placemaking in the Neighbourhoods of Amsterdam
  • 15. A Global Red-Light City? Prostitution in Amsterdam as a Real-and-Imagined Place
  • 16. Global Eros in Amsterdam: Religion, Sex, Politics
  • Contributors
  • Index

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