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Now showing — The Social Contract · 5 works

  • 21 Jump Street Film · 2010s

    Two underachieving cops go undercover at a high school and discover the social order has flipped. A self-aware buddy comedy that shouldn't work but does.

    Urban isolationPowerIdentity
  • Social ritual, labor, and quiet endurance keep desire indirect and formal in an urban interior world.

    LongingUrban isolationRitual
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate jour...

    PowerUrban isolationMemory
  • The Golden Notebook Books · 1960s

    The story of the inner and outer life of Anna, a young writer, single mother and member of the Communist Party, struggling with crises both in her domestic and political life, this book was hailed as a landmark by the Women's Movement.

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • The Knick Television · 2010s

    The Knick is an American period medical drama television series on Cinemax created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler and directed by Steven Soderbergh. The series follows Dr. John W. Thackery and the staff at a fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City during the early twentieth century. Am...

    PowerUrban isolationSurveillance
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