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Fairy Tale
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fair occasionally dark
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Fairy Tale
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Telling the Truth: the Gospel as tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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A Theory of Justice
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and South Asia.
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Princess Tutu
Carries a strong pull into books through folklore and identity.
Anime
Maison Ikkoku
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and folklore.
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Books · Strong bridge
The Tin Drum
1950s
A boy refuses to grow up during the rise of Nazism. Germany's conscience as dark fairy tale.
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Anime · Strong bridge
Revolutionary Girl Utena
1990s
A girl who wants to be a prince fights duels in a surreal academy. Gender, fairy tales, and revolution.
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2000s
A robot child is programmed to love his human mother — who abandons him. Spielberg completes Kubrick's fairy tale about what it means to be real.
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A Theory of Justice
1970s
The veil of ignorance. Rawls's thought experiment for designing fair institutions — the most influential political philosophy since Mill.
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Telling the Truth: the Gospel as tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale
collection of essays by Frederick Buechner
Anime 1980s
Maison Ikkoku
In the town of Clock Hill, there is an old boarding house called Maison Ikkoku. While the residence itself is fairly normal, most of its occupants are not. Yuusaku Godai, its most quiet tenant, has finally reached his limit with his neighbors' constant disruptions and boisterous partying. Wanting a calmer place to c...
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Film 2010s
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
A bamboo cutter finds a tiny girl. Watercolor animation retelling Japan's oldest fairy tale.
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Essays 1970s
Telling the Truth: the Gospel as tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale
Telling the Truth: the Gospel as tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale is a 1977 essay or critical text by named creators, linked to a wider international field and English. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument, and...
Anime 2000s
Princess Tutu
In a fairy tale come to life, the clumsy, sweet, and gentle Ahiru seems like an unlikely protagonist. In reality, Ahiru is just as magical as the talking cats and crocodiles that inhabit her town—for Ahiru really is a duck! Transformed by the mysterious Drosselmeyer into a human girl, Ahiru soon learns the reason fo...
Film 1990s
The Insider
The Insider is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by Michael Mann and written by Mann and Eric Roth, based on Marie Brenner's 1996 Vanity Fair article "The Man Who Knew Too Much". The film stars Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Bruce McGill, Diane Venora and Michael Gambon.