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This Is Not a Film
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Speak
Carries a strong pull into television through nature and power.
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Snow Crash
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and Western Europe.
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Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and longing.
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Is This It
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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No Future
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and South Asia.
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The Argonauts
Carries a strong pull into anime through identity and modernity.
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Television · Strong bridge
This Is Us
2010s
This Is Us is an American drama television series created by Dan Fogelman that aired on NBC from September 20, 2016, to May 24, 2022. The series follows the lives and families of two parents and their three children in several different timeframes. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, S...
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Snow Crash
1990s
Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id views a bitmap image contained in the file which causes his computer to crash and Da5id to suffer brain damage in the real world. This is the future we...
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Is This It
2000s
Eleven songs that revived rock and roll. Downtown New York garage perfection.
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In This Corner of the World
2010s
In This Corner of the World is a 2016 anime title tied to Sunao Katabuchi and Kotringo and Japan. It keeps the animated field legible through atmosphere, genre range, and exact-title recall.
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Essays 2000s
No Future
"In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of "reproductive futurism." Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protec...
Television 2020s
I Know This Much Is True
I Know This Much Is True is an American drama television miniseries directed and co-written by Derek Cianfrance, based on the 1998 novel by Wally Lamb. The series stars Mark Ruffalo in a dual role as twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey. It premiered on HBO on May 10, 2020, and concluded on June 14, 2020, consi...
Books 1920s
This Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise is a 1920 book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, linked to United States and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
Music 2000s
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
PJ Harvey falls in love with New York. Rock at its most romantic and fierce.
Anime 2000s
Beck
Fourteen-year-old Yukio "Koyuki" Tanaka is a dispirited young boy with no goals in life. However, this all changes when Koyuki saves a strange-looking dog named Beck from being harassed by a group of local kids. The dog's owner, 16-year-old Ryuusuke "Ray" Minami, is an emerging guitarist and the former member of a p...
Film 2000s
This Is England
This Is England is a 2006 film from United Kingdom, associated with Shane Meadows. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.