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concept
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Hospice
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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What's Going On
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and after-hours.
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Essays
concept
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
Essays
The Selfish Gene
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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Books · Strong bridge
Ego sum vermis : De l'insecte né de la pourriture, à la conception du Christ sans accouplement. Un exemple de naturalisme exégétique médiéval
book section published in 2019
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Music · Strong bridge
The Downward Spiral
1990s
Industrial rock's most complete artistic statement. Self-destruction as concept album.
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Film · Strong bridge
découpage
concept from the film that is the reverse of editing
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Essays · Strong bridge
Primitive Passions
1990s
Rey Chow's reading of ethnic cinema and translation — the conceptual frame behind a generation of Hong Kong film studies.
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Music 1970s
What's Going On
Vietnam, ecology, and inner-city despair as Motown concept album. Soul music's conscience.
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soundtrack
musical concept; recorded music accompanying a production such as a film
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Essays 1970s
The Selfish Gene
Genes as the unit of selection. Evolution reframed from the gene's perspective — a conceptual revolution in biology.
Music 2000s
Hospice
Hospice is the third studio album by American indie rock band The Antlers, and their first concept album. It was initially self-distributed by the band in March 2009, and was eventually remastered and re-released once they signed to Frenchkiss Records in August of the same year.
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Music 1960s
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The concept album that changed everything. A Day in the Life and the studio as instrument.