Transformations of City and Countryside in the Byzantine Period PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Genres / Science Fiction

Transformations of City and Countryside in the Byzantine Period PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Genres / Science FictionThis book, a collection of articles from a conference in 2016 on Transformations of City and Countryside in the Byzantine Period, investigates the social dynamics behind changes in urban and rural life in the Byzantine period that can be detected by archaeology, history and art history.

Bad Education and Buena Vista Social Club are analysed alongside those of lesser-known works that range from the melodramas of Mexican cinema’s golden age to Brazilian and Portuguese musical comedies from the 1940s and 1950s

Focusing on Manchester

Vladimir Voinovich’s Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts is a wildly satiric send-up of the 1960s/1970s Soviet show-trials by a Soviet dissident who was sometimes called ‘Russia’s greatest living satirist

Highlighting projects from urban regeneration to community gardens

and emergent trading partners (Africa)

even into issues of cross-cultural transmission of knowledge and how

torture and the motives of the Iraq War

It explores the political and social effects and possibilities of identity practices

Argues that far from being a marginal and insignificant figure

Chic provides an in-depth analysis of the social changes

mise-en-scènes

This edition for the first time makes available in print a semi-diplomatic edition of William Percy’s The Aphrodysial