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Now showing — Democracy · 5 works

  • Three Nuts for Cinderella is a 1973 film from Czechoslovakia, West Germany, and German Democratic Republic, associated with Václav Vorlíček. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing t...

    MemoryAfter-hoursLonging
  • 12 Angry Men Film · 1950s

    A single holdout juror convinces eleven others. Democracy and doubt in one room.

    PowerAfter-hoursLonging
  • No Film · 2010s

    The advertising campaign that brought down Pinochet. Democracy sold like Coca-Cola.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • book published in 2000

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • Democracy in America Essays · 1830s

    A French aristocrat anatomizes the young American republic. Still the sharpest external reading of American democratic culture.

    ModernityResistanceIdentity
Also in the field · 3
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  • Sean Carroll's Mindscape #129, “Democracy in America” Music
  • DEMOcracy Music
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  • The Social Contract Essays
  • Democracy in America Essays
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  • Three Nuts for Cinderella Film
  • 12 Angry Men Film