The Vampire’s Journey – How the Bloodsucker Changed Over the Centuries
By the time we got to Blade or Edward Cullen’s sunlight-sparkling vampire, the bloodsucker had already gone through countless transformations.
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How Did The Lord of the Rings Change the Way We See the World?
How did Tolkien’s world come into being? How did old, varied myths become the kind of coherent fantasy world we now take for granted?
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Sherlock Holmes Came Back from the Dead – How Investigation Became a Cultural Phenomenon
How did investigation become a literary genre, mass entertainment, a game – and one of culture’s most popular ways of understanding the world?
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Destino – Dalí, Disney and the Scattered Imagination
Dalí and Disney’s unfinished film spent decades scattered across drawings, memories and archives, before being brought back to life by a new generation of artists.
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Pogo Is Not a Dance – On the Mosh Pit Phenomenon
From the outside, a mosh pit may look like a chaotic mass brawl. In reality, it is a communal space operating according to its own rules. What happens when people temporarily enter a different system of rules?
