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The City of Lost Children
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The City & The City
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and memory.
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and memory.
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Los Angeles
Carries a strong pull into television through power and urban isolation.
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Kollaps
Carries a strong pull into television through power and urban isolation.
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The Arcades Project
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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The Practice of Everyday Life
Carries a strong pull into books through urban isolation and South Asia.
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The City and the City
2010s
The City and the City is a 2018 television series from United Kingdom, shaped by Tom Shankland. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United Kingdom. Engages with urban isolation, nature. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.
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The Rings of Saturn
1990s
A walking tour of coastal Suffolk becomes a meditation on decay, colonial violence, memory, and the entropy of civilization.
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Los Angeles
2000s
Instrumental hip-hop from the city of angels. Glitch, jazz, and Coltrane's great-nephew.
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Tekkonkinkreet
2000s
The streets of Treasure Town are said to belong to "The Cats." They know everything that goes on in the city, and no one can stir up trouble without going through them first. In reality, The Cats are a pair of orphan boys called Black and White, who aren’t afraid of anything or anyone. But their rule of the streets...
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Essays 1980s
The Practice of Everyday Life
The Practice of Everyday Life is a book by Michel de Certeau that examines the ways in which people individualise mass culture, altering things, from utilitarian objects to street plans to rituals, laws and language, in order to make them their own. It was originally published in French as L'invention du quotidien....
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Television 1990s
At the Threshold of an Era
TVB's millennium-threshold corporate saga — Hong Kong television holding the city through institution, ambition, and generational weight.
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Books 1990s
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
A man searches for his missing cat, then his missing wife. Murakami's deepest well of strangeness.
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Music 1980s
Kollaps
Concrete, metal, power tools. Berlin industrial music as literal demolition — the sound of buildings falling in the divided city.
Anime 2010s
Durarara!!
In Tokyo's downtown district of Ikebukuro, amidst many strange rumors and warnings of anonymous gangs and dangerous occupants, one urban legend stands out above the rest—the existence of a headless "Black Rider" who is said to be seen driving a jet-black motorcycle through the city streets. Mikado Ryuugamine has alw...
Film 1990s
Paris Is Burning
Paris Is Burning is a 1990 American documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay and transgender communities involved in it.