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Behind Bars
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Behind Bars
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Behind Bars
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Primitive Passions
Carries a strong pull into film through modernity and South Asia.

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Simulacra and Simulation
Carries a strong pull into film through modernity and South Asia.
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Inside No. 9
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and South Asia.
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Inside No. 9
2010s
Dark anthology series, each set behind a door marked 9. British wit at its most twisted.
Anime · Strong bridge
Terror in Resonance
2010s
Painted in red, the word "VON" is all that is left behind after a terrorist attack on a nuclear facility in Japan. The government is shattered by their inability to act, and the police are left frantically searching for ways to crack down the perpetrators. The public are clueless—until, six months later, a strange v...
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Film · Strong bridge
The Gleaners and I
2000s
Varda films people who gather what others leave behind. A digital-age meditation on waste and art.
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Essays · Strong bridge
Primitive Passions
1990s
Rey Chow's reading of ethnic cinema and translation — the conceptual frame behind a generation of Hong Kong film studies.
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Behind Bars: The World's Toughest Prisons
Behind Bars: The World's Toughest Prisons is a 2016 television series from a wider international field, shaped by named creators. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure.
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Anime 2010s
Attack on Titan
Humanity fights giant humanoids behind massive walls. Freedom, fascism, and cycles of violence.
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Film 2010s
Atlantics
Workers vanish at sea. A supernatural romance about migration, labor, and the longing left behind.
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Essays 1980s
Simulacra and Simulation
Reality has been replaced by signs of reality. The philosophical matrix behind The Matrix.
Television 2010s
Behind the Wall: Bubba Wallace
Behind the Wall: Bubba Wallace is a 2018 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.
Anime 2000s
Welcome to the N.H.K.
Twenty-two-year-old college dropout Tatsuhiro Satou has been a hikikomori for almost four years now. In his isolation, he has come to believe in many obscure conspiracy theories, but there is one in particular which he holds unshakable faith in: the theory that the evil conspirator behind his shut-in NEET (Not in Em...