Full Description
This collection of articles offers readers a cross-section of current research on contemporary and historical concepts and representations of (cultural) values as documented in popular culture, public space, the arts, works of literature and in ethnic contexts. The contributors to this volume are from the US, Algeria, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Albania, Serbia, Turkey, and Austria. Their very different cultural, ideological, scientific, academic and non-academic perspectives and backgrounds allow insights from many different viewpoints.
Contents
Contents: Veronika Bernard: The IMAGES Project - Veronika Bernard: Introduction - Keti Shehu: Responsibility and Economy of Images - Sibel Almelek İşman: The Vanitas: Moral Values in European Art - Jutta Teuwsen: Contemporary Japanese Arts: Religion and Technology in the Illustrations of Nature - Cinla Şeker: Anatolian Folk Music Album Cover Images at the Beginning of the Third Millennium - Ömer Alkın: Making Cultural Values Visible in Early Turkish-German Cinema - Simonetta Milli Konewko: Images of Work in Collodi's Pinocchio - Selma Mokrani Barkaoui: «The Gift of the Stranger»: Elkader as a Cultural Utopia - Roberta Matkovic/Tanja Habrle: The Figure of the Mother - Nerma Cridge: From Trivial to Extremely Serious: We Don't Even Own Public Space Images Anymore - Adriana De Angelis: Skyscrapers - Strong Images of Culture and Art; Globalized - Veronika Bernard: Istanbul's İstiklal Caddesi Graffiti: Young Istanbul Sprayer Art Doing the Cat-Walk, and Testing Cultural Values - Rubén Gregori: The Conversion of the Old Testament Patriarchs: The Image of Jewish Conversos in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon (14th-16th Centuries) - Itzea Goicolea-Amiano: Ambivalent Images of Otherness(es) in the War and the Spanish Occupation of Tetouan (1859-1862) - Miloud Barkaoui: The Case of Quartier Belsunce in Marseilles: of Maghrebi Immigration, Duality of Image, and Conflicting Cultural Values in France - Mirjana Marinkovic: Images of Cultural Values in the Novel A Strangeness in
My Mind by Orhan Pamuk - Neval Berber: «Interesting to be Seen and Experienced»: Some Aspects of Modern Tourist Discourse in George Walter Thornbury's Accounts on Turkey and the Turks - Gönül Bakay: Representations of «the Primitive» in Things Fall Apart and Death and King's Horseman.
