Visual Cultures

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Matera on Film: How the Screen Turned the City into a Universal Landscape

Visual Cultures · Biographies of Place

Matera has played Jerusalem, mythical worlds and itself. Cinema expanded its fame by selecting a different city, each time, within the same material fabric.

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The Trojan Horse in Art and Exhibitions: Images, Artefacts and Metamorphoses

Visual Cultures · Atlases and metamorphoses

An article on the Trojan Horse in art, exhibitions and the visual metamorphoses of the myth.

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The Odyssey on Film: From Ancient Myth to Christopher Nolan

Visual Cultures · Myth on screen

An article on the Odyssey on film and the transformation of ancient myth into contemporary visual culture.

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Imaginary Architecture: Ideal Cities, Utopias and Impossible Forms

Visual Cultures · Architectures of the possible

An article on the Trojan Horse as impossible architecture, narrative object and threshold between city, myth and deception.

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