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Now showing — The Bluest Eye · 5 works

  • Stone Butch Blues Books · 1990s

    Stone Butch Blues is a historical fiction novel written by Leslie Feinberg about life as a butch lesbian in 1970s America. While fictional, the work also takes inspiration from Feinberg's own life, and she describes it as her "call to action."

    PowerMemoryMigration
  • The Bluest Eye Books · 1970s

    The Bluest Eye is a 1970 book by Toni Morrison, linked to United States and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.

    PowerMemoryMigration
  • The Wire Television · 2000s

    Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.

    PowerSurveillanceNature
  • The Sopranos Television · 1990s

    A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • The 400 Blows Film · 1950s

    A troubled Parisian boy's struggle against family and school. The iconic final freeze frame.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
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