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ChildHood
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Music Has the Right to Children
Carries a strong pull into film through folklore and after-hours.
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“CHILDHOOD”
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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psychosexual development
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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Never Have I Ever
Carries a strong pull into anime through power and identity.
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From Up on Poppy Hill
Carries a strong pull into music through folklore and South Asia.
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Television · Strong bridge
Never Have I Ever
2020s
Never Have I Ever is an American comedy-drama television series starring Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher. Though it takes place in the San Fernando Valley, the show has been reported to be loosely based on Kaling's childhood experiences in the Boston area, while Kaling herself has said...
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Speak, Memory
1950s
Nabokov's autobiography of exile, chess problems, butterflies, and the crystalline recovery of a lost St. Petersburg childhood.
Anime · Strong bridge
Kids on the Slope
2010s
Introverted classical pianist and top student Kaoru Nishimi has just arrived in Kyushu for his first year of high school. Having constantly moved from place to place since his childhood, he abandons all hope of fitting in, preparing himself for another lonely, meaningless year. That is, until he encounters the notor...
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Spirited Away
2000s
A girl enters a spirit world bathhouse. Miyazaki's most complete vision of childhood, greed, and transformation.
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Essays
psychosexual development
Sigmund Freud's philosophy on personality development during early childhood.
Books 1930s
The Street of Crocodiles
This a magical book of short stories set in a small town in Poland during the period between the two World Wars. The writer, Bruno Schulz, wrote only two books in his lifetime but the two are so rich in vision that they contain a whole world. There are wonderful stories of childhood and how a child's imagination tra...
Anime 2010s
From Up on Poppy Hill
Meet Kaito Takagi, your typical high schooler with a low profile. He spends his days exploring dungeons in Japan, hunting slimes for some extra cash. On the side, he quietly admires his childhood friend, the popular girl in class. One day, a rare golden slime shows up, and after Kaito defeats it, he finds a super va...
Film 1960s
Ivan's Childhood
Ivan's Childhood is a 1962 film from Soviet Union, associated with Andrei Tarkovsky. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
Books 1930s
The Waves
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to middle age. Social events, individual achievements and disappointments form the outer structure of the book, but the focus is the inner life of the characters which is conveyed in rich poetic language.
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Music 1990s
Music Has the Right to Children
Nostalgic electronic music that sounds like half-remembered childhood. Hauntology as genre.