The Practice of Cultural Analysis: Exposing Interdisciplinary Interpretation Book

	List of Illustrations
	Contributors
	Introduction	1
	Prelude: Dia-logic - A Dialogue in Images Between Edwin Janssen and Janneke Lam	15
Pt. I	Don't Look Now: Visual Memory in the Present	23
	The Finishing Touch	29
	Vermeer's Women: Shifting Paradigms in Midcareer	44
	"Le cinema d'apres Lumiere": Rereading the "Origins" of the Filmic Image	60
	Killing Men and Dying Women: Gesture and Sexual Difference	75
	Imagining the 'Shtetl': Visual Theories of Nationhood	102
	The Veils of Time: On the Historical Dimension in Cultural Analysis	122
Pt. II	Close-ups and Mirrors: The Return of Close Reading, with a Difference	137
	Venice and the Violence of Location	143
	Affective Reading: Loss of Self in Djuna Barnes's 'Nightwood'	151
	History and/as Cultural Analysis: Gibbon and Ovid	171
	"Is This Naomi?": Misreading, Gender Blurring, and the Biblical Story of Ruth	189
	Three Local Cases of Cross-Atlantic Reading: A Discussion on Space and Identity	203
	Variety & Standard	219
Pt. III	Method Matters: Reflections on the Identity of Cultural Analysis	229
	Culture and Critique	235
	Cultural Variety and Metaphysical Unity	255
	Desire, Distance, and Insight	268
	Cultural Analysis and the Ghost of 'Geistesgeschichte'	287
	The Techno-University and the Future of Knowledge: Thoughts After Lyotard	303
	Double Afterwords	325
	Why Interdisciplinarity Isn't Enough	327
	What Is Cultural Studies?	335
	Notes	351
	Bibliography	367
	Index	385