Architecture and ekphrasis TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / History

Architecture and ekphrasis TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / HistoryThis well illustrated, accessibly written book examines how eighteenth century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Combining original archival material with cultural theory, the book considers the idea of the past and the role of space and time in the visual ekphrasis or description of its architecture.

• investigates African theatre's capacity to combine contemporary cultural issues into the whole artistic fabric of performing arts

Jonathan Larson’s phenomenally successful Rent (1996)

Trash or treasure is a wide-ranging historical study of the British circulation of the video nasties - A term that was originally coined to ban a group of horror videos in Britain in the 1980s but which continues to have cultural resonance in Britain up to the present day

and its potential for insurgent forms of civic engagement and democracy-building

technology

This new collection of translations represents the first attempt to offer a representative sample of Wyclif’s Latin works in translation in a single volume

this study examines the romantic narratives of pirates in Somalia

and the impact of the Black Death

interdisciplinary analyses of individual films

These varied contributions illuminate performances that range from theatre in Thai refugee camps to site-specific works staged in a run-down immigrant community in the United Kingdom

of local and national influences

are experienced by fans