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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
  • In Search of Lost Time Books · 1910s

    Memory, time, and the social world of Belle Époque France across seven volumes.

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

    LongingUrban isolationRitual
  • The Sellout Books · 2010s

    A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's *The Sellout* showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relatio...

    RitualUrban isolationPower
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