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The Game
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The Game
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Sacred Games
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Arcades Project
Carries a strong pull into anime through modernity and identity.
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Man, Play and Games
Carries a strong pull into anime through modernity and identity.
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The Wire
Carries a strong pull into books through power and urban isolation.
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The English Game
Carries a strong pull into books through power and urban isolation.
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The Wire
2000s
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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The Sellout
2010s
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's *The Sellout* showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relatio...
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Mind Game
2000s
After seeing her jump onto a subway at the last second and getting her ankle crushed between the doors, Nishi reconnects with his high school sweetheart, Myon. Nishi is still very much in love with Myon, but is shocked to learn that she is engaged to another man. Nishi agrees to meet Myon's fiancé at her family's Ya...
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The Crying Game
1990s
The Crying Game is a 1992 film from United Kingdom, Japan, and Ireland, associated with Neil Jordan. 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 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...
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The English Game
The English Game is a 2020 television work from United Kingdom, shaped by Julian Fellowes and Tim Fywell. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure.
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Music 1980s
Sacred Games
Anime 2010s
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
Jinta Yadomi is peacefully living as a recluse, spending his days away from school and playing video games at home instead. One hot summer day, his childhood friend, Meiko "Menma" Honma, appears and pesters him to grant a forgotten wish. He pays her no mind, which annoys her, but he doesn't really care. After all, M...
Film 1990s
Funny Games
Funny Games is a 1997 film from Austria, associated with Michael Haneke. 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 1950s
Man, Play and Games
Man, Play and Games is a 1958 essay or critical text by Roger Caillois, linked to a wider international field and French. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument, and editorial context.