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1950
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Wildcat Tamer - The Tarheel Slim Story 1950-1962
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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1950
Keeps a workable bridge into film through after-hours and longing.
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My Brilliant Friend
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and after-hours.
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Fellow Travelers
Carries a strong pull into books through power and longing.
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A Suitable Boy
1990s
A mother searches for a husband for her daughter in 1950s India. 1,349 pages of post-independence life.
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Far from Heaven
2000s
Far from Heaven is a 2002 historical romantic drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert and Patricia Clarkson. Moore plays a 1950s housewife living in wealthy suburban Connecticut as she sees her seemingly perfect life begin to fall apart.
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Fellow Travelers
2020s
Fellow Travelers is an American historical romance and political thriller television miniseries based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon. Starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey, it centers on the decades-long romance between two men who first meet during the height of McCarthyism in the 1950s. The...
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The Bell Jar
1960s
A young woman's descent into depression in 1950s America. Plath's only novel.
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Carol
Carol is a 2015 historical romantic drama film directed by Todd Haynes. The screenplay by Phyllis Nagy is based on the 1952 romance novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith. The film stars Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Jake Lacy, and Kyle Chandler. Set in 1950s New York City, the story is about a...
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Happy Days
1974-1984 television comedy set in the 1950s
Books 1950s
Giovanni's Room
Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.
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The Tree of Life
A 1950s Texas family, the origin of the universe, and the meaning of grace. Malick at his most cosmic.
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Wildcat Tamer - The Tarheel Slim Story 1950-1962
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