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Personal Interpretation
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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
Carries a strong pull into music through identity and power.
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Sex Education
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and urban isolation.
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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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Persona
1960s
An actress who has gone silent and her nurse on an island. Identity dissolution at its purest.
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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...
Television 2010s
Sex Education
Sex Education is a British teen sex comedy drama television series created by Laurie Nunn for Netflix. It follows the lives of the teenagers and adults in the fictional town of Moordale as they contend with various personal dilemmas, often related to sexual intimacy. It stars an ensemble cast that includes Asa Butte...
Books 1980s
Money
Money: A Suicide Note is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. It follows John Self, an advertising director whose hedonism and compulsive spending propel a chaotic transatlantic film project and a personal unravelling. Contemporary and later critics have frequently read the book as a sharp satire of 1980s consumer culture a...
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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 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 1950s
Notes of a Native Son
Essays on race, identity, and America. Baldwin at his most incisive and personal.