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Now showing — The Key to Rebecca · 5 works

  • novel by Ken Follett

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • The Wire Television · 2000s

    Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.

    PowerSurveillanceNature
  • After narrowly escaping Wei Zhuang's assassins, Jing Tianming, Ge Nie, and their allies seek refuge in Mechanical City, the Mohist School's impregnable stronghold hidden deep in the mountains. Protected by hundreds of traps and mechanical beasts, the fortress remains one of the few places untouched by the Qin Empire...

    Urban isolationFolkloreIdentity
  • The Sopranos Television · 1990s

    A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • The Battle of Algiers Film · 1960s

    The Algerian fight for independence from France. Revolution filmed as it might have happened.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
Also in the field · 3
Page to screen
Screen echoes for this book

Open the book outward through film, television, and animated works carrying adjacent tensions.

  • The Sopranos Television
  • The Wire Television
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Albums in this field
  • Songs in the Key of Life Music
  • The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Music
Interpretive layer
Idea lines behind this surface

Bring interpretation forward so the route reads with more clarity, pressure, and argument.

  • The Republic Essays
  • The Souls of Black Folk Essays