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The Americans
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Nightwood
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and power.
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The Corrections
Carries a strong pull into television through power and Southern Europe.
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Carrie & Lowell
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Nebraska
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Promise of Happiness
Carries a strong pull into television through power and identity.
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Democracy in America
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and Southern Europe.
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The Corrections
2000s
A Midwestern family falls apart as the parents age. The American family novel for the 21st century.
Music · Strong bridge
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
1990s
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One is the eighth studio album by the American indie rock band Yo La Tengo, released on April 22, 1997, by Matador Records. It was produced by Roger Moutenot and recorded at House of David in Nashville, Tennessee. The album expands the guitar-based pop of its predecessor Electr-O-Pura...
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The Godfather
1970s
The Corleone family saga. Power, loyalty, and the corruption of the American dream.
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Democracy in America
1830s
A French aristocrat anatomizes the young American republic. Still the sharpest external reading of American democratic culture.
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The American West
The American West is a 2016 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.
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Books 1920s
The Great Gatsby
A mysterious millionaire and his impossible dream. The American century in 180 pages.
Music 1980s
Nebraska
Nebraska is the sixth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on September 30, 1982, through Columbia Records. Springsteen recorded the songs unaccompanied on a four-track recorder in the bedroom of his home in Colts Neck, New Jersey. He had intended to rerecord the tracks with the...
Film 1970s
The American Friend
The American Friend is a 1977 film from Germany and France, associated with Wim Wenders. 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 2010s
The Promise of Happiness
Alexander Nehamas is a Greek-born American philosopher. He is an emeritus professor of philosophy and comparative literature and the emeritus Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1990. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Scie...
Television 2000s
Mad Men
A 1960s advertising executive and the changing American century. Style, repression, reinvention.