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Is This It
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Born This Way
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and longing.
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The Argonauts
Carries a strong pull into anime through identity and modernity.
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No Future
Carries a strong pull into anime through modernity and identity.
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This Is England
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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This Is Us
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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This Is Us
2010s
This Is Us is an American drama television series created by Dan Fogelman that aired on NBC from September 20, 2016, to May 24, 2022. The series follows the lives and families of two parents and their three children in several different timeframes. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, S...
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Snow Crash
1990s
Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id views a bitmap image contained in the file which causes his computer to crash and Da5id to suffer brain damage in the real world. This is the future we...
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In This Corner of the World
2010s
In This Corner of the World is a 2016 anime title tied to Sunao Katabuchi and Kotringo and Japan. It keeps the animated field legible through atmosphere, genre range, and exact-title recall.
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This Is England
2000s
This Is England is a 2006 film from United Kingdom, associated with Shane Meadows. 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 2000s
No Future
"In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of "reproductive futurism." Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protec...
Television 2020s
We Own This City
We Own This City is an American crime drama television miniseries based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton. The miniseries was developed by George Pelecanos and David Simon and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green. The six-episode series premiered on HBO on April 25, 2022.
Books 1970s
Dancer from the Dance
One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard Baths and after-hour...
Music 2010s
Born This Way
Born This Way is a 2011 album associated with Lady Gaga and Interscope Records. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
Anime 2000s
Beck
Fourteen-year-old Yukio "Koyuki" Tanaka is a dispirited young boy with no goals in life. However, this all changes when Koyuki saves a strange-looking dog named Beck from being harassed by a group of local kids. The dog's owner, 16-year-old Ryuusuke "Ray" Minami, is an emerging guitarist and the former member of a p...
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Essays 2010s
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author’s relationship with artist Harry Dodge. This story, which...