Glorious catastrophe

Glorious catastropheGlorious catastrophe presents the first detailed critical analysis of the visual art, film, performance and writing of Jack Smith, an icon of the New York avant garde, from the early 1960s until his AIDS related death in 1989. It uses his personal papers, and unpublished interviews with friends and collaborators.

The updated second edition has new chapters on Ian Holm's television performance

it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by the existing socio-economic

Aside from the occasional nod to epaulettes or use of camouflage

the focus is on their shared experience of division

The three plays in this volume reflect the variety of belief in witches and practice of witchcraft in the Jacobean period

This volume attests to the fact that pressing global public health concerns are ever present as subjects of societal discourse and debate in developed and developing states

who explore the topic from different yet complementary angles

offers reading editions

This book is the definitive study of how skin was debated

multi-polar international relations

forming a global network of writers

to comparative analyses of Shakespeare and Milton