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Now showing — As Happy as Possible · 5 works

  • As Tears Go By Film · 1980s

    Gang loyalty, bruised romance, and city-night momentum collide in an early Wong Kar-wai feature.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • Happy Valley Television · 2010s

    Happy Valley is a 2014 television series from United Kingdom, shaped by Sally Wainwright. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United Kingdom. Engages with nature, surveillance. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.

    NaturePowerSurveillance
  • Queer as Folk Television · 1990s

    Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Initially running for eight episodes, a two-part follow up was shown in 2000. It was written by Russell T Davies and produced by Red Production Company for Channel 4.

    Urban isolationPowerSurveillance
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    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • Illness as Metaphor Essays · 1970s

    In 1978, while recovering from cancer, Susan Sontag wrote Illness as metaphor, the celebrated essay on the invented and often punitive uses of illness in our culture. It was not surprising that a decade later, after the advent of AIDS, Sontag felt compelled to write a sequel that would counter the almost universal l...

    PowerModernityResistance
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  • Axis: Bold as Love Music
  • As Happy as Possible Music
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  • Illness as Metaphor Essays
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  • As Tears Go By Film
  • Queer as Folk Television