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Mediating Postmodern Lifecycles

OPEN Dalston and the Demolition of The Four Aces
In campaigning, ultimately unsuccessfully, to prevent the destruction of a celebrated local venue, OPEN Dalston offered an alternative vision of the…
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Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
This comic fantasy about a forty-something woman who travels back to her senior year after attending her high school reunion offered a circular notion…
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New Labour on Desert Island Discs
Labour politicians who appeared on the Radio 4 show between the mid-1990s and mid-2010s used their musical choices to try and tell stories about their…
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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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