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Now showing — The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob · 5 works

  • The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob Film · 1970s

    The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob is a 1973 film from France and Italy, associated with Gérard Oury. 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
  • Mad Men Television · 2000s

    A 1960s advertising executive and the changing American century. Style, repression, reinvention.

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • 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 Passion of Joan of Arc Film · 1920s

    Joan's trial in extreme close-up. The human face as the landscape of silent cinema.

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  • The Republic Essays
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