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Now showing — The Perks of Being a Wallflower · 5 works

  • Beastars Anime · 2010s

    In a civilized society of anthropomorphic animals, an uneasy tension exists between carnivores and herbivores. At Cherryton Academy, this mutual distrust peaks after a predation incident results in the death of Tem, an alpaca in the school's drama club. Tem's friend Legoshi, a grey wolf in the stage crew, has been a...

    NatureAfter-hoursFolklore
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a young adult coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky, which was first published on February 1, 1999, by Pocket Books. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted observing teenager, through his freshman year of high school in a Pitts...

    PowerMemoryMigration
  • The Wire Television · 2000s

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

    PowerSurveillanceNature
  • Twin Peaks: The Return Television · 2010s

    18 hours of pure Lynchian television. The most ambitious limited series ever broadcast.

    MigrationPowerSurveillance
  • The Sopranos Television · 1990s

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

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
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