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The People of the Mist
10 curated works.
MemoryFolkloreLongingUrban isolation
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Routes through The People of the Mist

10 works selected across all media.

Themes in this selection
MemoryFolkloreLonging
Routes through the index
Page to screen
Screen echoes for this book
Open the book outward through film, television, and animated works carrying adjacent tensions.
4 the People
Film
4 the People
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and longing.
The Last Emperor
Film
The Last Emperor
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and longing.
Interpretive layer
Idea lines behind this surface
Bring interpretation forward so the route reads with more clarity, pressure, and argument.
The Power of Myth
Essays
The Power of Myth
Carries a strong pull into books through power and folklore.
The Practice of Everyday Life
Essays
The Practice of Everyday Life
Carries a strong pull into books through urban isolation and South Asia.
Cultural geography
Regional constellations
Bad Behavior
Books
Bad Behavior
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and urban isolation.
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Sarazanmai
Anime 2010s
Sarazanmai
After the noble Kappa Kingdom falls to the Otter Empire, the Kappa prince Keppi loses much of his power and becomes helpless against the unseen Kapa-zombies. These zombies plague the world, and are the creations of the Otters and manifestations of people's deepest desires. With no other choice, Keppi must rely on th...
LongingPowerFolkloreIdentity
The Last Emperor
Film 1980s
The Last Emperor
The Last Emperor is a 1987 film from People's Republic of China, France, and United Kingdom, associated with Bernardo Bertolucci. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to...
MemoryAfter-hoursLongingUrban isolation
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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....
RitualUrban isolationModernityResistance
Bad Behavior
Books 1980s
Bad Behavior
Powerful stories of dislocation, longing and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is groping for human connection. (Or, more simply put, the angst of people-who-wear-black.)
LongingUrban isolationPowerMemory
The Flowers of War
Film 2010s
The Flowers of War
The Flowers of War is a 2011 film from People's Republic of China, associated with Zhang Yimou. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
After-hoursMemoryLongingUrban isolation