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Age Before Beauty
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The Age of Innocence
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and South Asia.
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The Corrections
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and Southern Europe.
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OK Computer
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and after-hours.
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The Age of Adz
Carries a strong pull into film through power and after-hours.
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The Future of Nostalgia
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and Southern Europe.
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Carries a strong pull into television through surveillance and power.
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Books · Strong bridge
The Corrections
2000s
A Midwestern family falls apart as the parents age. The American family novel for the 21st century.
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Music · Strong bridge
OK Computer
1990s
Alienation in the information age. The album that predicted 21st century anxiety.
Film · Strong bridge
All About Lily Chou-Chou
2000s
A bruised coming-of-age film where mediated music culture, adolescent cruelty, and yearning turn intimacy into something unstable and hard to hold.
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Essays · Strong bridge
The Future of Nostalgia
2000s
"Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? What happens to Old World memories in a New World order? Do we even know what we are nostalgic for?". "Combining philosophical essay, aesthetic analysis and personal memoir, Boym explores the spaces of collective nosta...
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Television 2020s
We Are Who We Are
We Are Who We Are is a 2020 coming-of-age drama television miniseries co-created and directed by Luca Guadagnino for HBO and Sky Atlantic. A coming-of-age story set on a fictional U.S. military base in Chioggia, Italy, in 2016, the series follows two American teenagers, Fraser Wilson and Caitlin "Harper" Poythress....
Books 1920s
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence is a 1920 book by Edith Wharton, linked to United States and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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Music 2010s
The Age of Adz
Glitch, orchestra, and maximalist electronic folk. Stevens at his most overwhelming.
Film 1930s
L’Age d’Or
L’Age d’Or is a 1930 film from France, associated with Luis Buñuel. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Essays 2010s
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
How tech companies extract and monetize human experience. The fight for a human future.
Television 2020s
Heartstopper
Heartstopper is a British coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama television series created by British author Alice Oseman for Netflix, based on her graphic novels and webcomic series of the same name. The series follows the lives Charlie Spring, a gay teen boy who falls in love with classmate Nick (Nicholas) Nelson, wh...