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Now showing — The American West · 5 works

  • American Honey Film · 2010s

    American Honey is a 2016 road drama film written and directed by Andrea Arnold, and starring Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, and Riley Keough. The film follows Star (Lane), a young girl from a troubled home, who runs away with a traveling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling magazine subscriptions door...

    PowerAfter-hoursLonging
  • I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One Music · 1990s

    I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One is the eighth studio album by the American indie rock band Yo La Tengo, released on April 22, 1997, by Matador Records. It was produced by Roger Moutenot and recorded at House of David in Nashville, Tennessee. The album expands the guitar-based pop of its predecessor Electr-O-Pura...

    After-hoursLonging
  • Paris Is Burning Film · 1990s

    Paris Is Burning is a 1990 American documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay and transgender communities involved in it.

    Urban isolationPowerAfter-hours
  • The American Friend Film · 1970s

    The American Friend is a 1977 film from Germany and France, associated with Wim Wenders. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.

    After-hoursMemoryLonging
  • Deadwood Television · 2000s

    A frontier mining camp becomes a town. Shakespeare in the mud of the American West.

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
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  • Nightwood Books
  • The Alchemist Books
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  • I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One Music
  • Nebraska Music
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  • Democracy in America Essays
  • The Souls of Black Folk Essays

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