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Real Life
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Back to Life
Carries a strong pull into books through power and South Asia.
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Another Life
Carries a strong pull into books through power and South Asia.
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By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Real Deal
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Television · Strong bridge
Homicide: Life on the Street
1990s
Homicide: Life on the Street is a 1993 television series from United States, shaped by Paul Attanasio. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure.
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By the Time I Get to Phoenix
2020s
Experimental hip-hop processing a member's death in real time. Grief as glitch.
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Pulse
2000s
Pulse is a 2001 Japanese techno-horror film written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. The plot follows two separate storylines in Japan that faces mass disappearances amidst a ghostly invasion of the real world via the Internet. One f...
Television · Strong bridge
Big Life Fix
2010s
Big Life Fix is a 2016 television series from United Kingdom, shaped by named creators. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United Kingdom. Engages with nature, surveillance. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.
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Austerlitz
"Austerlitz is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fle...
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The Real Deal
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Film 1970s
The Battle of Chile
The fall of Salvador Allende documented in real time. Political cinema's most essential trilogy.
Television 2010s
Back to Life
Back to Life is a 2019 television series from United Kingdom, shaped by Christopher Sweeney. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United Kingdom. Engages with nature, surveillance. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.
Books 2010s
Foundations of Real-World Economics
Foundations of Real-World Economics is a 2019 book by John Komlos, linked to a wider international field and multiple languages. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
Television 2010s
Another Life
Another Life is a 2019 television series from United States, shaped by named creators. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United States. Engages with nature, surveillance. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.