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The Memory Police
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The Affair
Carries a strong pull into music through power and South Asia.
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Police Story
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and East Asia.
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Blonde
Carries a strong pull into television through power and South Asia.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and folklore.
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The Future of Nostalgia
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and identity.
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The Affair
2010s
The Affair is an American drama television series created by Sarah Treem and Hagai Levi. The series premiered on Showtime on October 12, 2014. It ran for five seasons, concluding with its final episode on November 3, 2019.
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The Transit of Venus
1980s
Follows the story of two beautiful orphaned sisters newly arrived in England from Australia.
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Blonde
2010s
R&B deconstructed. Nostalgia, queerness, and the texture of memory rendered in minimalist soul.
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Solaris
1970s
A psychologist arrives at a space station orbiting a sentient ocean. Grief and memory in the cosmos.
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Essays 2000s
The Year of Magical Thinking
"this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you . . ."In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called "an indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . a haunting portrait of a four-decade-long m...
Books 1980s
The Door
Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and greedier fiancée trick him into taking the long sleep--su...
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Film 1980s
Sans Soleil
Letters from a world traveler. Tokyo, Guinea-Bissau, and the persistence of memory.
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The Future of Nostalgia
"Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? What happens to Old World memories in a New World order? Do we even know what we are nostalgic for?". "Combining philosophical essay, aesthetic analysis and personal memoir, Boym explores the spaces of collective nosta...
Film 1980s
Police Story
Police Story is a 1985 film from Hong Kong, associated with Jackie Chan. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
Books 2000s
The Housekeeper and the Professor
The Housekeeper and the Professor is a novel by Yōko Ogawa set in modern-day Japan. It was published in Japan in August 2003, by Shinchosha. In 2009, the English translation by Stephen Snyder was published.