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Now showing — American Woman · 5 works

  • Beloved Books · 1980s

    A formerly enslaved woman is haunted by her dead daughter. Memory, trauma, and the weight of history.

    LongingMemoryFolklore
  • Vertigo Film · 1950s

    A detective's obsession with a woman who may not exist. Hitchcock's most personal and disturbing film.

    PowerIdentityAfter-hours
  • Lemonade Music · 2010s

    Visual album as political statement. Infidelity, Black womanhood, and transformation.

    PowerAfter-hoursLonging
  • The Handmaid's Tale Books · 1980s

    A woman enslaved as a reproductive vessel in a theocratic America. Dystopia as feminist nightmare.

    After-hoursMemoryMigration
  • Enlightened Television · 2010s

    Enlightened is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on October 10, 2011. The series was created by Mike White, who wrote every episode, and Laura Dern. As signaled by its tagline "About a woman on the verge of a nervous breakthrough", Enlightened follows the story of Amy Jellicoe (Dern),...

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
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