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The Battle of Life
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The Sopranos
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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The Wire
Carries a strong pull into music through power and South Asia.
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Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Carries a strong pull into television through power and after-hours.
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Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Live at the OKC Zoo Amphitheatre, Aug. 30, 2024)
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and Southern Europe.
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The Arcades Project
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
2000s
Psychedelic pop about a girl fighting robots. Do You Realize?? as accidental anthem.
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Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods
2010s
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods is a 2013 anime title tied to Masahiro Hosoda and Norihito Sumitomo and Japan. It keeps the animated field legible through atmosphere, genre range, and exact-title recall.
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The Battle of Algiers
1960s
The Algerian fight for independence from France. Revolution filmed as it might have happened.
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Essays 1980s
The Arcades Project
Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict's Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best Machines is a 1982 non-fiction book on video games by the British author Martin Amis. The foreword is written by American filmmaker Steven Spielberg, also an arcade game enthusiast. Writing in The Village Voice, U.S. author...
Television 2000s
The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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Books 1880s
The Brothers Karamazov
Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.
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Music 2000s
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1
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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 2020s
The Queen's Gambit
An orphaned chess prodigy battles addiction and Cold War opponents. Chess as character study.