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This Is Us
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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 South Asia.
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Born This Way
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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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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This Is England
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
Television
Can't Touch This
Carries a strong pull into books through nature and power.
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This Side of Paradise
1920s
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.
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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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This Is England
2000s
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.
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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 1990s
Speak
"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk...
Music 2010s
Born This Way
Born This Way is a 2011 album associated with Lady Gaga and Interscope Records. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
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Film 2010s
This Is Not a Film
Under house arrest, Panahi documents his daily life and the films he cannot make.
Television 2010s
Can't Touch This
Can't Touch This is a 2016 television series from United Kingdom, shaped by named creators. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United Kingdom. Engages with nature, surveillance. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.
Books 1920s
The Castle
This book is the earliest and most influential of the Gothic novels. First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the second edition, "to blend the two kinds of ro...