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America Divided
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Pale Fire
Carries a strong pull into music through power and South Asia.
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Onward, Christian soldiers!: race, religion, and nationalism in post-civil rights America
Carries a strong pull into essays through migration and identity.
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The River
Carries a strong pull into television through power and nature.
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Kollaps
Carries a strong pull into television through power and urban isolation.
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Democracy in America
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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Pale Fire
1960s
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
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Music · Strong bridge
The River
1980s
Working-class America in twenty tracks. Dreams, disappointment, and the road.
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Film · Strong bridge
Metropolis
1920s
A futuristic city divided between workers and planners. Silent cinema's most ambitious vision.
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Democracy in America
1830s
A French aristocrat anatomizes the young American republic. Still the sharpest external reading of American democratic culture.
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America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model is a 2003 television series from United States, shaped by Tyra Banks. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United States. Engages with nature, surveillance. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.
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Democracy in America
book published in 2000
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Music 1980s
Kollaps
Concrete, metal, power tools. Berlin industrial music as literal demolition — the sound of buildings falling in the divided city.
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Film
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
1989 film by Aki Kaurismäki
Television 2020s
Severance
Office workers have their memories surgically divided. Corporate horror as existential allegory.
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Onward, Christian soldiers!: race, religion, and nationalism in post-civil rights America
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