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City of Life and Death
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and memory.
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City of Glass
Carries a strong pull into television through urban isolation and Southern Europe.
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Los Angeles
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and after-hours.
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Sound of the City (Nature 2.4)
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and after-hours.
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The Practice of Everyday Life
Carries a strong pull into books through urban isolation and South Asia.
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Television · Strong bridge
The Corner
2000s
The Corner is a 2000 HBO drama television miniseries based on the nonfiction book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (1997) by David Simon and Ed Burns, and adapted for television by David Simon and David Mills. It premiered on HBO in the United States on April 16, 2000, and concluded its s...
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City of Glass
1980s
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Los Angeles
2000s
Instrumental hip-hop from the city of angels. Glitch, jazz, and Coltrane's great-nephew.
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The Practice of Everyday Life
1980s
The Practice of Everyday Life is a book by Michel de Certeau that examines the ways in which people individualise mass culture, altering things, from utilitarian objects to street plans to rituals, laws and language, in order to make them their own. It was originally published in French as L'invention du quotidien....
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High Maintenance
High Maintenance is an American anthology comedy-drama television and web series created by ex-husband and wife team Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld. The show follows The Guy, a cannabis courier, as he delivers his product to clients in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Each episode focuses on different charac...
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Books 1990s
The Rings of Saturn
A walking tour of coastal Suffolk becomes a meditation on decay, colonial violence, memory, and the entropy of civilization.
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Music 1980s
Henry V: Original Soundtrack Recording
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Film 2000s
City of God
Two decades in a Rio de Janeiro favela. Violence, ambition, and survival as visual spectacle.
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Television 1990s
At the Threshold of an Era
TVB's millennium-threshold corporate saga — Hong Kong television holding the city through institution, ambition, and generational weight.
Books 1980s
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate jour...