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American Gothic
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American Born Chinese
Carries a strong pull into television through power and South Asia.
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The Castle
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and East Asia.
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American Idiot
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Disintegration
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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American Idol
Carries a strong pull into books through power and South Asia.
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American Honey
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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American Born Chinese
2000s
American Born Chinese is a 2006 book by Gene Luen Yang, linked to United States and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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American Idiot
2000s
American Idiot is a 2004 album associated with Green Day and Reprise Records. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
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American Honey
2010s
American Honey is a 2016 road drama film written and directed by Andrea Arnold, and starring Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, and Riley Keough. The film follows Star (Lane), a young girl from a troubled home, who runs away with a traveling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling magazine subscriptions door...
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American Idol
2000s
American Idol is a 2002 television series from United States, shaped by Simon Fuller, Ken Warwick, Bruce Gowers, and Shane Drake. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure.
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The Castle
This book is the earliest and most influential of the Gothic novels. First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the second edition, "to blend the two kinds of ro...
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Music 1980s
Disintegration
Gothic pop's masterwork. Rain, reverb, and the gorgeous sound of falling apart.
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Film 1970s
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Schoolgirls vanish at a mysterious rock formation. Australian gothic at its most dreamlike.
Television 2010s
American Grit
American Grit is a 2016 television series from United States, shaped by named creators. 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.
Film 1950s
The Night of the Hunter
The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American Southern Gothic horror-thriller film directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Davis Grubb. The plot is about Preacher Harry Powell (Mitchum), a se...
Television 2010s
American Housewife
American Housewife is a 2016 television series from United States, shaped by named creators. 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.