The cultural identities of European cities
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The cultural identities of European cities
(Cultural identity studies / edited by Helen Chambers, v. 16)
Peter Lang, c2011
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Cities are both real and imaginary places whose identity is dependent on their distinctive heritage: a network of historically transmitted cultural resources. The essays in this volume, which originate from a lecture series at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, explore the complex and multi-layered identities of European cities.
Themes that run through the essays include: nostalgia for a grander past; location between Eastern and Western ideologies, religions and cultures; and the fluidity and palimpsest quality of city identity.
Not only does the book provide different thematic angles and a variety of approaches to the investigation of city identity, it also emphasizes the importance of diverse cultural components. The essays presented here discuss cultural forms as various as music, architecture, literature, journalism, philosophy, television, film, myths, urban planning and the naming of streets.
Table of Contents
Contents: Katia Pizzi/Godela Weiss-Sussex: Introduction - Martin Liebscher: Vienna: The Narcissistic Insult - Katia Pizzi: Trieste: A Dissident Port - Nagihan Haliloglu: Istanbul Criteria: The Construction of a City Identity - Nevena Dakovic: Imagining Belgrade: The Cultural / Cinematic Identity of a City at the Fringes of Europe - Peter Burke: Myths of Venice - Iain Fenlon: Sounding the City: Music, Monteverdi and Mantuan City Identity - Adrian Rifkin: Bayreuth, World City? Or: The Provincial Village as Global Denkmal ... - Stephen Brockmann: Nuremberg and Its Memories - Godela Weiss-Sussex: Berlin: Myth and Memorialization - Michael Sheringham: Paris - City of Names: Toponymic Trajectories and Mutable Identities - Paul Melo E Castro: Lisbon on Screen: Aspects of Portugal's Capital in Portuguese Cinema - Guido Rings: Madrid: Neo-colonial Spacing in Contemporary Spanish Cinema?
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