The Kalush are the last Kafirs (pagans) of Hindu Kush and speak an Indo-European language, which makes them a particularly precious resource for the Indo-European scholar. This thesis offers an in-depth study of their language and of some aspects of their culture. Starting from …
In the 1970s, especially after Franco's death in 1975, Spanish cinema was bursting at the seams. Numerous film directors broke free from the ancient taboos which had reigned under the dictatorship. They introduced characters who, through their bodies, transgress the traditional …
"Cities are full of symbols that bear the meanings that together constitute urban culture. These interdisciplinary case studies, from Yogyakarta to Leiden and from Buenos Aires to New York, employ urban symbolism theory and a focus on such symbols as the city's layout, statues, …
This study throws new light on the Roman impact on Italic religious structures in the last four centuries BC and, more generally, on the complex processes of change and accommodation set in motion by the Roman expansion in Italy. Cult places had a pivotal function among the vari…
This scholarly study throws a new light on the Roman impact on religious structures in Republican Italy.
This study throws new light on the Roman impact on Italic religious structures in the last four centuries BC and, more generally, on the complex processes of change and accommodation set in motion by the Roman expansion in Italy. Cult places had a pivotal function among the vari…
German cinema is best known for its art cinema and its long line of outstanding individual directors. The double spotlight on these two subject has only deepened the obscurity surrounding the popular cinema. A Second Life<i/> performs a kind of archaeology on a period largely ov…
Essays on a neglected period, focusing on the face and fate of popular cinema.
Encourages the use of arts in creating international understanding, celebrating cultural diversity, building cultural bridges and creating cross-cultural dialogue throughout the Asian regions. L Joubert, University Melbourne.
"This timely volume engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historically, this marks a return to early interest in the effect of film on the audience by psychoanalysts and psychologists, whi…
"This timely volume engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historically, this marks a return to early interest in the effect of film on the audience by psychoanalysts and psychologists, whi…
Filmmaker and theoretician Jean Epstein profoundly influenced film practice, criticism and reception in France during the 1920s and well beyond. His work not only forms the crux of the debates of his time, but also remains key to understanding later developments in film practice…
Generally considered one of milestones in the development of modern drama, August Strindberg's chamber play The Ghost Sonata (1907) has variously been hailed as the first expressionist, surrealist and absurdist drama. rIn this monograph of the play as text and as performance - t…
"In 1911 Vasily Kandinsky published the first edition of 'On the Spiritual in Art', a landmark modernist treatise in which he sought to reframe the meaning of art and the true role of the artist. For many artists of late Imperial Russia - a culture deeply influenced by the regim…
Under the main theme "Ancient Painting between Local Style and Period Style", 150 specialists from 16 nations dedicated themselves in September 2010 in Ephesus to the characteristics of period and/or local styles in ancient painting and to the relationship and influence of local…
Under the main theme "Ancient Painting between Local Style and Period Style", 150 specialists from 16 nations dedicated themselves in September 2010 in Ephesus to the characteristics of period and/or local styles in ancient painting and to the relationship and influence of local…
Under the main theme?Ancient Painting between Local Style and Period Style?, 150 specialists from 16 nations dedicated themselves in September 2010 in Ephesus to the characteristics of period and/or local styles in ancient painting and to the relationship and influence of local …
Siebzehn AutorInnen aus sieben historisch- kulturwissenschaftlichen Fächern untersuchen Strategien und Konkretisierungen visueller Darstellung von Kult: Inszenierungen und Erfahrungen von Kult, Personenkult, Kulträume und Manifestationen von Kultpraxis. In den Blick genommen wer…
An edited collection of interdisciplinary essays on the work of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, American-born, London-based journalist, author, and aesthete who published (or co-published) over twenty books and a thousand periodical articles between the early 1880s and 1930.
