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Mediating Postmodern Lifecycles

The Apprentice
The depicted relationship between Roy Cohn and Donald Trump links law, real estate, and politics, as well as establishing a lineage of the American…
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Falling in Love Again (1980)
A forthcoming high school reunion forces a middle-aged couple to confront their marital problems, thrown into sharp relief by the husband’s memories of…
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Is It Worth the Aggravation?
Oasis’s reunification this week is the latest development in Britpop’s long afterlife, its leading lights continuing to carve out careers in the music…
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The Bikeriders
This intimate depiction of a Chicago motorcycle club meditates on associational culture, the social changes of the 1960s, and how gender and generation…
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Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
This film retells the story of the making of Mary Poppins, and reflects upon the autobiographical aspects of storytelling, and the subsequent conflicts…
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The Iron Claw
This filmic treatment of the lives of the Von Erich family uses wrestling as a moving metaphor for both Reaganomics and toxic masculinity.
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American Fiction
Writer-director Cord Jefferson’s debut film is part blistering satire about the shallowness of diversity politics in cultural industries, part…
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Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film scathingly ridicules patriarchy and liberal ideas of progress in a highly stylised manner.
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The Reunion Film Cycle
Four American films made between the mid-to-late 1990s used high school reunions as plot devices for exploring Generation X's experience’s of young…
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Ferrari
The biopic of the Italian sportscar manufacturing mogul depicts a man struggling to keep the different aspects of his life in a suitable order.
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The Boy and the Heron
This wonderfully strange animated film is rich with symbolism about violence, hierarchy, and fate.
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You’ve Got Mail (1998)
You’ve Got Mail’s anonymous online relationship between two professional rivals served to normalise the internet as a space for forming genuine romantic…
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