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This is Life
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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.
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Can't Touch This
Carries a strong pull into books through nature and power.
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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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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
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.
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
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...
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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...
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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.