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Now showing — The Memory Police · 5 works

  • Police Story Film · 1980s

    Police Story is a 1985 film from Hong Kong, associated with Jackie Chan. 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
  • The Affair Television · 2010s

    The Affair is an American drama television series created by Sarah Treem and Hagai Levi. The series premiered on Showtime on October 12, 2014. It ran for five seasons, concluding with its final episode on November 3, 2019.

    PowerNatureSurveillance
  • The Housekeeper and the Professor is a novel by Yōko Ogawa set in modern-day Japan. It was published in Japan in August 2003, by Shinchosha. In 2009, the English translation by Stephen Snyder was published.

    ModernityMemoryMigration
  • The Transit of Venus Books · 1980s

    Follows the story of two beautiful orphaned sisters newly arrived in England from Australia.

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • The Years Books · 2000s

    A stirring, straightforward work written near the end of her luminous career, Virginia Woolf's *The Years* is a portrait of the Pargiters, a staid London family presided over by Colonel Abel Pargiter. In some ways, "portrait" is not an entirely appropriate word, because Woolf's subject in this novel (and an abiding...

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
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  • The Affair Television
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  • Blonde Music
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  • The Year of Magical Thinking Essays
  • The Future of Nostalgia Essays