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Born This Way
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Born This Way
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Born to Run
Carries a strong pull into books through power and after-hours.
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The Second Sex
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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The Social Contract
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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Haibane Renmei
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and folklore.
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Born Free
Carries a strong pull into books through after-hours and memory.
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Born to Kill
2010s
Born to Kill is a 2017 television series from United Kingdom, shaped by named creators. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United Kingdom. Engages with nature, surveillance. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.
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Midnight's Children
1980s
Children born at the moment of Indian independence possess magical powers. Nation as allegory.
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Haibane Renmei
2000s
Born from a cocoon in the village of Old Home, a young Haibane—a being with a halo and small gray wings—awakens to a world she does not understand without memories of her past. Named Rakka for the dream of falling she had while inside the cocoon, she soon becomes accustomed to life in the strange town. However, ther...
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Born Free
1960s
Born Free is a 1966 film from United Kingdom, associated with James Hill. 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 1940s
The Second Sex
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Existentialist feminism's founding text.
Books 2000s
American Born Chinese
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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Music 1970s
Born to Run
Thunder Road and the dream of escape. The Boss at maximum romantic desperation.
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Essays 1760s
The Social Contract
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. The philosophical foundation of modern democracy.
Books 2010s
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
An everywoman biography of structural sexism in South Korea. Quiet accumulation of indignity as a form of horror.
Film
Mick Jackson
English film director (born 1943)