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Mediterranean Encounters in the City : Frameworks of Mediation Between East and West, North and South.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (191 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498528092
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mediterranean Encounters in the CityDDC classification:
  • 307.7609182/2
LOC classification:
  • DE71.M4325 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Decadent Nights -- 2 Closed Encounters -- 3 Cityscapes as Dystopias in Moroccan Film -- 4 New Imagined Frenchness -- 5 Neapolitan Media Activism and Translocal Identities -- 6 Where Is Naples? Locating Naples in John Turturro's Film Passione -- 7 Lands of Approximation -- 8 Utopia by the Sea -- Index -- About the Authors.
Summary: This book documents and analyzes how the contemporary Mediterranean city manages and negotiates its identity as a result of recent reconfigurations in its cultural, religious, and social landscape. The chapters in this book provide a broad and comprehensive investigation of the ways in which recent cultural productions have framed and re-imagined the Mediterranean city as a locus of departures, arrivals and contested belonging.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Decadent Nights -- 2 Closed Encounters -- 3 Cityscapes as Dystopias in Moroccan Film -- 4 New Imagined Frenchness -- 5 Neapolitan Media Activism and Translocal Identities -- 6 Where Is Naples? Locating Naples in John Turturro's Film Passione -- 7 Lands of Approximation -- 8 Utopia by the Sea -- Index -- About the Authors.

This book documents and analyzes how the contemporary Mediterranean city manages and negotiates its identity as a result of recent reconfigurations in its cultural, religious, and social landscape. The chapters in this book provide a broad and comprehensive investigation of the ways in which recent cultural productions have framed and re-imagined the Mediterranean city as a locus of departures, arrivals and contested belonging.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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