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Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling
(2023)
Characters are a vital aspect of today’s transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in our popular media ...
Inleiding tot de Latijnse Syntaxis
(2007)
Latin Syntax is a concise overview of the Latin syntax, based on modern academic insights. This book offers clear understanding of the most important characteristics of Latin grammatical sentence structure. The emphasis ...
Inleiding tot de Latijnse Syntaxis
(2007)
Latin Syntax is a concise overview of the Latin syntax, based on modern academic insights. This book offers clear understanding of the most important characteristics of Latin grammatical sentence structure. The emphasis ...
Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood
(2005)
Ernst Lubitsch, the German film director who left Berlin for Hollywood in 1923, is best remembered for the famous "Lubitsch touch" in such masterpieces as Trouble in Paradise and Ninotchka, featuring Greta Garbo. Kristin ...
Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood
(2005)
Ernst Lubitsch, the German film director who left Berlin for Hollywood in 1923, is best remembered for the famous "Lubitsch touch" in such masterpieces as Trouble in Paradise and Ninotchka, featuring Greta Garbo. Kristin ...
Foggy Social Structures
(2011)
Irregular migration systems are giving way to an undocumented population in Europe that is estimated at some millions. The migrants manage to live and work for years without a certified identity yet within 'foggy' social ...
Divided Dreamworlds?
(2012)
While the divide between capitalism and communism, embodied in the image of the Iron Curtain, seemed to be as wide and definitive as any cultural rift, Giles Scott-Smith, Joes Segal, and Peter Romijn have compiled a selection ...
Divided Dreamworlds?
(2012)
While the divide between capitalism and communism, embodied in the image of the Iron Curtain, seemed to be as wide and definitive as any cultural rift, Giles Scott-Smith, Joes Segal, and Peter Romijn have compiled a selection ...
Syntax of Dutch: Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases
(2013)
The volume Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases discusses the internal make-up and the distribution of adpositional phrases. Topics that are
covered include complementation and modification of adpositional
phrases, as ...
Inventing Cinema
(2019)
With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images and sounds, media feel more unstable than ever. But was there ever a ...
Inventing Cinema
(2019)
With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images and sounds, media feel more unstable than ever. But was there ever a ...
Getting by in Europe's Urban Labour Markets
(2008)
This book examines two major social changes experienced by European cities in the last two decades: post-industrial economic restructuring and new immigration flows. The link between both has been extensively discussed ...
Getting by in Europe's Urban Labour Markets
(2008)
This book examines two major social changes experienced by European cities in the last two decades: post-industrial economic restructuring and new immigration flows. The link between both has been extensively discussed ...
Syntax of Dutch: Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases
(2013)
The volume Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases discusses the internal make-up and the distribution of adpositional phrases. Topics that are
covered include complementation and modification of adpositional
phrases, as ...
Network and Migration in Early Renaissance Florence, 1378-1433
(2018)
This book explores the co-development of political, social, economic, and artistic networks of Florentines working in the Kingdom of Hungary during the reign of Sigismund of Luxembourg. The social network of these politicians, ...
Network and Migration in Early Renaissance Florence, 1378-1433
(2018)
This book explores the co-development of political, social, economic, and artistic networks of Florentines working in the Kingdom of Hungary during the reign of Sigismund of Luxembourg. The social network of these politicians, ...
Fabricating the Absolute Fake
(2008)
The pageantry of Oprah Winfrey's talk show, the Coca-Cola empire, Michael Jackson's turn from the King of Pop into an iconic global recluse: American pop culture - Hollywood cinema, television, pop music - dominates the ...
Fabricating the Absolute Fake
(2008)
The pageantry of Oprah Winfrey's talk show, the Coca-Cola empire, Michael Jackson's turn from the King of Pop into an iconic global recluse: American pop culture - Hollywood cinema, television, pop music - dominates the ...
Strindberg's Ghost Sonata
(2000)
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 ...
Strindberg's Ghost Sonata
(2000)
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 ...
Transition and Transformation
(2012)
In 1923, Victor Sjöström (1879-1960) got an offer from Goldwyn Pictures to come to Hollywood. This was nothing unusual for a successful European director: - Metro's bring - ing them in by car load - , as Photoplay stated ...
Transition and Transformation
(2012)
In 1923, Victor Sjöström (1879-1960) got an offer from Goldwyn Pictures to come to Hollywood. This was nothing unusual for a successful European director: - Metro's bring - ing them in by car load - , as Photoplay stated ...
Risk Quantification and Allocation Methods for Practitioners
(2017)
Risk Quantification and Allocation Methods for Practitioners offers a practical approach to risk management in the financial industry. This in-depth study provides quantitative tools to better describe qualitative issues, ...
Risk Quantification and Allocation Methods for Practitioners
(2017)
Risk Quantification and Allocation Methods for Practitioners offers a practical approach to risk management in the financial industry. This in-depth study provides quantitative tools to better describe qualitative issues, ...
In debat over Nederland
(2007)
Sociology
Wereld van verschil
(2017)
Public debates tend to see social inequality as resulting from individual decisions people make, for instance with respect to their education or lifestyle. Solutions are often sought in supporting individuals to make better ...
Wereld van verschil
(2017)
Public debates tend to see social inequality as resulting from individual decisions people make, for instance with respect to their education or lifestyle. Solutions are often sought in supporting individuals to make better ...
Between Stillness and Motion
(2011)
New technological media such as film, photography and computers have altered the way we perceive possible relations between stillness and motion in the visual arts. Traditionally, cinema theory saw cinema and especially ...
Chapter 4 De grote golf van het sociale stelsel
(2016)
De ontwikkeling van de sociale zekerheid in de afgelopen eeuw vertoont het beeld van een grote golf: een snelle opgaande beweging na de Tweede
Wereldoorlog, gevolgd door een halvering van de uitgaven sinds 1984.
De ...
Chapter 4 De grote golf van het sociale stelsel
(2016)
De ontwikkeling van de sociale zekerheid in de afgelopen eeuw vertoont het beeld van een grote golf: een snelle opgaande beweging na de Tweede
Wereldoorlog, gevolgd door een halvering van de uitgaven sinds 1984.
De ...
Bankieren voor een betere wereld. Nanno Kleiterp in gesprek met Marijn Wiersma
(2017)
In een wereld vol met grote uitdagingen als gevolg van klimaatverandering, economische ongelijkheid en migratie, biedt het boek Bankieren voor een betere wereld van Nanno Kleiterp en Marijn Wiersma een diep inzicht in de ...
Bankieren voor een betere wereld. Nanno Kleiterp in gesprek met Marijn Wiersma
(2017)
In een wereld vol met grote uitdagingen als gevolg van klimaatverandering, economische ongelijkheid en migratie, biedt het boek Bankieren voor een betere wereld van Nanno Kleiterp en Marijn Wiersma een diep inzicht in de ...
From Early Tang Court Debates to China's Peaceful Rise
(2009)
This volume presents new topics from Chinese history of the last 1400 years from a broad range of fields such as politics, religion, society, economy and culture. The refreshing eight articles give new insights on events ...
From Early Tang Court Debates to China's Peaceful Rise
(2009)
This volume presents new topics from Chinese history of the last 1400 years from a broad range of fields such as politics, religion, society, economy and culture. The refreshing eight articles give new insights on events ...
Aesthetics of Gentrification
(2021)
Gentrification is reshaping cities worldwide, resulting in seductive spaces and exclusive communities that aspire to innovation, creativity, sustainability, and technological sophistication. Gentrification is also contributing ...
Aesthetics of Gentrification
(2021)
Gentrification is reshaping cities worldwide, resulting in seductive spaces and exclusive communities that aspire to innovation, creativity, sustainability, and technological sophistication. Gentrification is also contributing ...
Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time
(2021)
Digital media everyday inscribe new patterns of time, promising instant communication, synchronous collaboration, intricate time management, and profound new advantages in speed. The essays in this volume reconsider these ...
Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time
(2021)
Digital media everyday inscribe new patterns of time, promising instant communication, synchronous collaboration, intricate time management, and profound new advantages in speed. The essays in this volume reconsider these ...
Chapter Van Kriminologische Verzameling tot Korpora, Erfgoed Publieke Veiligheid
(2024)
In 2022, Korpora, the Public Safety Heritage Centre opened – tasked with acquiring, managing and exhibiting physical and digital collections on public safety in the Netherlands. Today, Korpora includes the national collections ...
Chapter Van Kriminologische Verzameling tot Korpora, Erfgoed Publieke Veiligheid
(2024)
In 2022, Korpora, the Public Safety Heritage Centre opened – tasked with acquiring, managing and exhibiting physical and digital collections on public safety in the Netherlands. Today, Korpora includes the national collections ...