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The Third Man
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The Odyssey
Carries a strong pull into television through folklore and Western Europe.
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The Mahabharata
Carries a strong pull into television through folklore and East Asia.
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Third
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and South Asia.
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Teen Dream
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and South Asia.
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The Location of Culture
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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The Souls of Black Folk
Carries a strong pull into music through identity and power.
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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
The Brothers Karamazov
1880s
Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.
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Music · Strong bridge
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
1990s
Soul, hip-hop, and reggae fused into a deeply personal statement of faith, love, and independence.
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The Souls of Black Folk
1900s
Double consciousness and the color line. The founding text of African American intellectual tradition.
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Television 2000s
The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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The Odyssey
A hero's ten-year journey home from war. The foundation of Western narrative.
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Music 1970s
The Dark Side of the Moon
Time, money, madness, and death. The concept album as cultural monolith.
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Film 1970s
The Godfather
The Corleone family saga. Power, loyalty, and the corruption of the American dream.
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Essays 1990s
The Location of Culture
Hybridity, mimicry, and the third space. Bhabha's theory of how colonized cultures resist, absorb, and transform the colonizer.
Television 2010s
The OA
The OA is an American mystery drama television series with science fiction, supernatural, and fantasy elements. The OA debuted on Netflix on December 16, 2016. Created and executive-produced by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, the series is their third collaboration. The series consists of two seasons of eight episo...