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The Romantic
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The Romantic
Carries a strong pull into television through longing and South Asia.
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Aromanticism
Carries a strong pull into television through longing and power.
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Critical Notes on Romantic Poetry
Carries a strong pull into anime through identity and South Asia.
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The Sopranos
Carries a strong pull into music through urban isolation and after-hours.
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The Wire
Carries a strong pull into music through urban isolation and South Asia.
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Television · Strong bridge
The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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Books · Strong bridge
Love in a Fallen City
1940s
Eileen Chang's Hong Kong novella reads the city as historical weather — wartime occupation as romantic structure rather than backdrop.
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Bloom Into You
2010s
Yuu Koito has always been entranced with romantic shoujo manga and the lyrics of love songs. She patiently waits for the wings of love to sprout and send her heart aflutter on the day that she finally receives a confession. Yet, when her classmate from junior high declares his love for her during their graduation, s...
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In the Mood for Love
2000s
A restrained romantic drama of corridor intimacy, urban longing, memory, and after-hours drift.
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Essays 1810s
Critical Notes on Romantic Poetry
Critical Notes on Romantic Poetry is a 1817 essay or critical text by Carlo Giuseppe Londonio, linked to a wider international field and Italian. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument, and editorial context.
Television 2000s
The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
Books 1960s
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens and prostitutes. An unforgettable cast of characters inhabits the housing projects, bars and streets of Brooklyn: Georgette, a hopelessly romantic and tormented transvestite; Vinnie, a disaffected and volatile youth wh...
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Music 1970s
Born to Run
Thunder Road and the dream of escape. The Boss at maximum romantic desperation.
Film 1990s
The Watermelon Woman
The Watermelon Woman is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, and edited by Cheryl Dunye. The first feature film directed by a Black lesbian, it stars Dunye as Cheryl, a young Black lesbian working a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about Fae Richards, a Black actress from...
Television 2020s
Heartstopper
Heartstopper is a British coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama television series created by British author Alice Oseman for Netflix, based on her graphic novels and webcomic series of the same name. The series follows the lives Charlie Spring, a gay teen boy who falls in love with classmate Nick (Nicholas) Nelson, wh...