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Now showing — Cancer + Newton's Cradle + February (Demo) · 5 works

  • 50/50 Film · 2010s

    A 27-year-old is diagnosed with spinal cancer and tries to keep living normally. Levine's comedy-drama based on a true story — funny and devastating.

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  • 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...

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  • Held here because it strengthens the visible field.

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  • Marriage + Cancer Music · 2010s

    Held here because it strengthens the visible field.

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  • Held here because it strengthens the visible field.

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  • 50/50 Film