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  • 21 Jump Street Film · 2010s

    Two underachieving cops go undercover at a high school and discover the social order has flipped. A self-aware buddy comedy that shouldn't work but does.

    Urban isolationPowerIdentity
  • Sherlock Television · 2010s

    Holmes and Watson in modern London. Benedict Cumberbatch as the high-functioning sociopath.

    ModernityPowerSurveillance
  • My So-Called Life Television · 1990s

    My So-Called Life is an American teen drama television series created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. It aired on ABC from August 25, 1994, to January 26, 1995. Set at the fictional Liberty High School in a fictional suburb near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, called Three Rivers, i...

    PowerNatureSurveillance
  • Speak Books · 1990s

    "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...

    IdentityNaturePower
  • High and Low Film · 1960s

    A shoe executive faces a moral crisis when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped instead of his own.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
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