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The Wave
11 curated works.
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11 works selected across all media.
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The Waves
Carries a strong pull into television through identity and South Asia.
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Hounds of Love
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and after-hours.
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Music
Breaking the Waves
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Feminine Mystique
Carries a strong pull into television through power and identity.
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Television · Strong bridge
The Bureau
2010s
French intelligence officers live double lives. The most authentic spy series ever made.
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The Waves
1930s
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to middle age. Social events, individual achievements and disappointments form the outer structure of the book, but the focus is the inner life of the characters which is conveyed in rich poetic language.
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Music · Strong bridge
Hounds of Love
1980s
Running up that hill and into the ninth wave. Art pop at its most cinematic and brave.
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Essays · Strong bridge
The Feminine Mystique
1960s
The problem that has no name. The book that ignited second-wave feminism.
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Television 2000s
The Shield
A corrupt LAPD detective navigates crime and consequence. The anti-hero before the wave.
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Music 2010s
Breaking the Waves
Film 1990s
Breaking the Waves
Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film from Denmark, Sweden, and France, associated with Lars von Trier. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
Television 2020s
The Glory
A woman meticulously plans revenge on her school bullies decades later. K-drama revenge thriller.
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Film 1950s
The 400 Blows
A troubled Parisian boy's struggle against family and school. The iconic final freeze frame.
Television 2010s
The Mantis
A serial killer helps her detective son catch a copycat. French crime thriller.