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Persona
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A Personal Matter
Carries a strong pull into film through identity and Southern Europe.
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Hiroko Taniyama
Carries a strong pull into television through identity and South Asia.
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and identity.
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Blood on the Tracks
Carries a strong pull into television through identity and power.
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Sister Outsider
Carries a strong pull into television through power and identity.
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Notes of a Native Son
Carries a strong pull into film through identity and power.
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
1980s
Thirteen episodes of wonder. Sagan's tour of the universe established science documentary as philosophical inquiry.
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A Personal Matter
1960s
A man faces the birth of a deformed child. Responsibility, escape, and moral reckoning.
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
1990s
Soul, hip-hop, and reggae fused into a deeply personal statement of faith, love, and independence.
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Notes of a Native Son
1950s
Essays on race, identity, and America. Baldwin at his most incisive and personal.
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Hiroko Taniyama
Japanese singer-songwriter, writer and radio personality (1956-)
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Music 1970s
Blood on the Tracks
Tangled Up in Blue and the sound of a heart breaking. Dylan's most personal album.
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Film 1950s
Vertigo
A detective's obsession with a woman who may not exist. Hitchcock's most personal and disturbing film.
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Essays 1980s
Sister Outsider
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment among minority wome...
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Music 1990s
Maxinquaye
Trip-hop's most claustrophobic and personal album. Bristol at its most nocturnal.
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Film 1990s
Farewell My Concubine
Two Peking opera stars navigate fifty years of Chinese political upheaval and personal devotion.