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The Snow Capped Mountains Rose Manor

The Snow Capped Mountains Rose Manor (雪山玫瑰庄园) is a garden and flower-themed eco-tourism area in Baisha town, Yulong County, Lijiang, Yunnan, China, at the foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.

The Snow Girl

The Snow Girl (La chica de nieve) is a Spanish Netflix crime thriller from Atípica Films, adapted from Javier Castillo's novels, following journalist Miren Rojo (Milena Smit) investigating disappearances in Málaga across two seasons (2023, 2025).

The Snow Maiden

The Snow Maiden (Снегурочка, "A Spring Tale") is an 1873 play by Alexander Ostrovsky, drawn from a Russian folk tale, later made into a famous Rimsky-Korsakov opera.

The Snow Man

"The Snow Man" is a fifteen-line poem by Wallace Stevens, first published in 1921, asking what it takes to see a winter landscape without projecting human emotion onto it.

The Snow Queen

The Snow Queen (Danish: Sneedronningen/Snedronningen) is Hans Christian Andersen's 1844 literary fairy tale in seven stories, in which Gerda rescues Kay from the Snow Queen's palace by thawing his heart with her tears.

The Snow White Murder Case (白ゆき姫殺人事件)

The Snow White Murder Case (白ゆき姫殺人事件) is a 2014 Japanese suspense film by Yoshihiro Nakamura, adapted from Minato Kanae's novel, in which a cosmetics employee's murder and a missing plain colleague ignite a Twitter-fueled witch hunt.

The Snowman

The Snowman is a 26-minute 1982 Channel 4 animated film adapted from Raymond Briggs's 1978 wordless picture book, directed by Dianne Jackson, produced by John Coates at TVC, with Howard Blake's "Walking in the Air", Oscar-nominated, BAFTA-winning, and shown every Christmas since.

The Snowman (2017 film)

The Snowman (2017) is Tomas Alfredson's crime thriller adapting Jo Nesbø's Snømannen, starring Michael Fassbender as Harry Hole; a rushed production left 10–15% of the script unfilmed, and the film earned 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (short story)

Hemingway short story first published in Esquire, August 1936, subtitled "A long story"; about Harry, a writer dying of gangrene on safari; reprinted in Best American Short Stories 1937 and filmed in 1952 with Gregory Peck.

The Social Construction of Reality

The Social Construction of Reality (Berger and Luckmann, 1966) is the foundational sociology-of-knowledge treatise explaining how subjective meanings become objective social reality via externalization, objectivation, and internalization; ranked fifth-most important sociology book of the twentieth century.

The Social Contract

Rousseau's The Social Contract (Du contrat social, 1762): treatise on legitimate political authority, general will, inalienable popular sovereignty, and "forced to be free"; distinct from Hobbes's and Locke's contract theories.

The Social Dilemma

The Social Dilemma is a 2020 Netflix documentary-drama directed by Jeff Orlowski-Yang, also called a docudrama on the attention economy, in which former Google, Facebook, and Twitter employees describe how algorithms manipulate users; it drew 38 million viewers in four weeks and won two Primetime Emmy Awards.

The Social Network

The Social Network (2010) is David Fincher's biographical drama, written by Aaron Sorkin from Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires, starring Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg; it won three Oscars and joined the National Film Registry in 2024.

The Social Reckoning

The Social Reckoning is a 2026 Aaron Sorkin drama and companion piece to The Social Network, dramatizing Frances Haugen's Facebook Files leaks to WSJ reporter Jeff Horwitz, starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, and Jeremy Strong as Zuckerberg.

The Society (TV series)

The Society is a 2019 Netflix teen mystery drama (10 episodes, TV-MA) created by Christopher Keyser with Marc Webb, a modern Lord of the Flies about West Ham teens trapped in New Ham; renewed July 2019, cancelled August 2020 due to COVID-19.

The Society of the Spectacle

The Society of the Spectacle (La Société du spectacle) is Guy Debord's 1967 Situationist critique arguing that social life is mediated by images; nine chapters, film version 1973, Comments sequel 1988.

The Soft Parade

The Soft Parade is the fourth studio album by the American rock band The Doors, released in 1969, featuring brass and string arrangements and the top-5 hit "Touch Me."

The Soft Skin

The Soft Skin (La Peau douce) is François Truffaut's 1964 French black-and-white adultery drama starring Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, and Nelly Benedetti, inspired by the Pierre Jaccoud case, a Cannes selection that flopped on release and was later reevaluated.

The Software Devloveper

The Software Devloveper (The Software DevLOVEper) is a 2020 Telugu comedy-romance web series on YouTube, produced by and starring Shanmukh Jaswanth, directed by Subbu K, 10 episodes, Infinitum Media, free to watch.

The Soldier (poem)

The Soldier is a 1914 patriotic sonnet by Rupert Brooke, the last of his 1914 war sonnets, imagining burial in a foreign field that becomes forever England; famous from Dean Inge's 1915 St Paul's sermon and often contrasted with Owen's Dulce et Decorum Est.

The Solid Gold Cadillac

The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) is a Columbia Pictures satirical comedy directed by Richard Quine, starring Judy Holliday and Paul Douglas, adapted from the Kaufman-Teichmann Broadway play; it won the Oscar for Best Black-and-White Costume Design.

The Solid Mandala

The Solid Mandala is a 1966 novel by the Australian writer Patrick White about the twin brothers Waldo and Arthur Brown, set in the fictional Sydney suburb of Sarsaparilla.

The Solitaire Mystery

The Solitaire Mystery (Kabalmysteriet) is a 1990 philosophical fantasy novel for young readers by the Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder, written before Sophie's World and translated into about thirty languages.

The Solitary Reaper

The Solitary Reaper is a 32-line William Wordsworth lyric, composed November 1805 and published in Poems in Two Volumes (1807), about a Gaelic-singing Highland woman reaping alone, sourced from Thomas Wilkinson's Scottish tour manuscript.

The Soloist

The Soloist is a 2009 American biographical drama film directed by Joe Wright, starring Jamie Foxx as homeless musician Nathaniel Ayers and Robert Downey Jr. as columnist Steve Lopez.

The Son (2002 film)

The Son (Le fils) is a 2002 Belgian-French drama by the Dardenne brothers about a carpenter whose new apprentice killed his son. Olivier Gourmet won Best Actor at Cannes 2002.

The Son (2022 film)

The Son (2022) is Florian Zeller's drama adapted from his play Le Fils, starring Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath, and Anthony Hopkins; a Sony Pictures Classics release that premiered at Venice 2022 and received poor reviews.

The Son (TV series)

The Son is an AMC Western drama (2017-2019, 20 episodes) adapted from Philipp Meyer's Pulitzer-finalist 2013 novel, starring Pierce Brosnan as Eli McCullough, a Texan kidnapped by Comanches in 1849 who builds an oil dynasty by 1915.

The Son of a Servant

The Son of a Servant (Tjänstekvinnans son) is an 1886 autobiographical novel series in four parts by the Swedish writer August Strindberg, following protagonist Johan from childhood to artistic maturity.

The Son of Kong

The Son of Kong (1933) is RKO's sequel to King Kong, directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, written by Ruth Rose, starring Robert Armstrong as Carl Denham, who returns to Skull Island and befriends Little Kong, a 20-foot white ape.