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Transformer
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Funeral
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Currents
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Location of Culture
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and South Asia.
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Breaking Bad
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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God's Own Country
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Breaking Bad
2000s
A chemistry teacher becomes a meth manufacturer. Moral transformation as serial narrative.
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Disgrace
1990s
A professor's fall from grace in post-apartheid South Africa. Power, shame, and transformation.
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Princess Tutu
2000s
In a fairy tale come to life, the clumsy, sweet, and gentle Ahiru seems like an unlikely protagonist. In reality, Ahiru is just as magical as the talking cats and crocodiles that inhabit her town—for Ahiru really is a duck! Transformed by the mysterious Drosselmeyer into a human girl, Ahiru soon learns the reason fo...
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Spirited Away
2000s
A girl enters a spirit world bathhouse. Miyazaki's most complete vision of childhood, greed, and transformation.
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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.
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Books 1960s
The Sea of Fertility
Four novels spanning the 20th century. Reincarnation, beauty, and Japan's transformation.
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Music 2010s
Lemonade
Visual album as political statement. Infidelity, Black womanhood, and transformation.
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Anime 2010s
Fruits Basket
A girl discovers a family cursed to transform into zodiac animals. Found family and healing trauma.
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Film 2000s
Howl's Moving Castle
A young woman cursed with old age finds refuge in a wizard's castle. War, love, and transformation.
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Music 2000s
Funeral
Grief transformed into communal catharsis. Indie rock's most anthemic debut.