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Kimberly Peirce, the Glossary

Kimberly Ane Peirce (born September 8, 1967) is an American filmmaker, best known for her debut feature film, Boys Don't Cry (1999), which won Hilary Swank her first Academy Award for Best Actress.^[1]

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Academy Award for Best Actress

The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), often pronounced; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a board of governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches.

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Alfred Eisenstaedt

Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 – August 23, 1995) was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American Crime (TV series)

American Crime is an American anthology crime drama television series created by John Ridley that aired on ABC from March 5, 2015, to April 30, 2017.

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Andre Jacquemetton

Andre Jacquemetton is an American television writer and producer.

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Andrew Sarris

Andrew Sarris (October 31, 1928 – June 20, 2012) was an American film critic.

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Ansel Elgort

Ansel Elgort (born March 14, 1994) is an American actor and singer.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Boston Society of Film Critics

The Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) is an organization of film reviewers from Boston, Massachusetts.

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Boys Don't Cry (1999 film)

Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce, and co-written by Peirce and Andy Bienen.

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Brandon Teena

Brandon Teena (December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) was an American transgender man who was raped and later, along with Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska, by John Lotter and Tom Nissen.

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Carrie (1976 film)

Carrie is a 1976 American supernatural horror film directed by Brian De Palma from a screenplay written by Lawrence D. Cohen, adapted from Stephen King's 1974 epistolary novel of the same name.

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Carrie (2013 film)

Carrie is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by Kimberly Peirce.

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Carrie (novel)

Carrie is a 1974 horror novel, the first by American author Stephen King.

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Chicago International Film Festival

The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every fall.

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Chinatown (1974 film)

Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay by Robert Towne.

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Chloë Grace Moretz

Chloë Grace Moretz (born February 10, 1997) is an American actress.

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Chloë Sevigny

Chloë Stevens Sevigny (born November 18, 1974) is an American actress, model, and fashion designer.

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Christine Vachon

Christine Vachon (born November 21, 1962) is an American film producer active in the American independent film sector.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Dear White People (TV series)

Dear White People is an American comedy-drama television series on Netflix that follows several black college students at an Ivy League institution (the fictional Winchester University), touching on issues surrounding modern American race relations from a politically progressive perspective.

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Directors Guild of America

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is an entertainment guild that represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad.

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Edgewater Casino

The Edgewater Casino is a former casino that was located at 760 Pacific Blvd South Vancouver, British Columbia.

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English literature

English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world.

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Falls City, Nebraska

Falls City is a city in and the county seat of Richardson County, Nebraska, United States.

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Feminist sociology

Feminist sociology is an interdisciplinary exploration of gender and power throughout society.

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Game of Silence (American TV series)

Game of Silence is an American crime drama television series based on the Turkish series Suskunlar (English original title: Game of Silence) which is based on the true story of children who were sentenced in absentia to nine years in prison on the charge of stealing a baklava car in Gaziantep in 1997.

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GLAAD

GLAAD is an American non-governmental media monitoring organization.

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Halt and Catch Fire (TV series)

Halt and Catch Fire is an American period drama television series created by Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers.

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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Harrisburg (Harrisbarrig) is the capital city of the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the seat of Dauphin County.

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Hilary Swank

Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress and film producer.

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I Love Dick (TV series)

I Love Dick is an American television series released on Amazon Prime.

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IFC Films

IFC Films LLC is an American film production and distribution company based in New York.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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IndieWire

IndieWire is a film industry and film criticism website that was established in 1996.

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Iraq War

The Iraq War, sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War, or Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.

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Janet Maslin

Janet R. Maslin (born August 12, 1949) is an American journalist, best known as a film and literary critic for The New York Times.

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Japanese literature

Japanese literature throughout most of its history has been influenced by cultural contact with neighboring Asian literatures, most notably China and its literature.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Julianne Moore

Julie Anne Smith (born December 3, 1960), known professionally as Julianne Moore, is an American actress.

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Kidding

Kidding is an American family tragicomedy television series created by Dave Holstein that premiered on September 9, 2018, on Showtime.

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Kobe

Kobe (Kōbe), officially, is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of female film and television directors

This is a list of female film and television directors.

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List of lesbian filmmakers

This is a list of lesbian filmmakers.

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This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender-related films that were directed by women.

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Locarno Film Festival

The Locarno Film Festival is a major international film festival, held annually in Locarno, Switzerland.

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Mad Men

Mad Men is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner and produced by Lionsgate Television.

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Manhattan (TV series)

Manhattan (sometimes styled MANH(A)TTAN) is an American drama television series based on the project of the same name that produced the first atomic weapons.

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Maria Jacquemetton

Maria Jacquemetton (Mastras) is a Greek American television writer and producer.

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Mark Richard

Mark Richard is an American short story writer, novelist, screenwriter, and poet.

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Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts administration.

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Miami

Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.

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Miami Sunset Senior High School

Miami Sunset Senior High School is a secondary school of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools system.

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National Board of Review

The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures is a non-profit organization of New York City area film enthusiasts.

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National Film Registry

The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) collection of films selected for preservation, each selected for its historical, cultural and aesthetic contributions since the NFPB's inception in 1988.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Non-binary gender

Non-binary and genderqueer are umbrella terms for gender identities that are outside the male/female gender binary.

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P-Valley

P-Valley is an American drama television series created by Katori Hall.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film and television production and distribution company and the namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global.

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Princess Grace Foundation-USA

The Princess Grace Foundation – USA is a charity organization named after Princess Grace of Monaco, which supports emerging performers in theater, dance, and film in the form of awards, grants, scholarships, and fellowships.

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Queer for Fear

Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror is a 2022 television documentary series from the AMC-owned streaming network Shudder and Steakhaus Productions, executive produced by Bryan Fuller and Steak House.

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Raging Bull

Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent, and Nicholas Colasanto in his final film role.

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Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer.

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Short film

A short film is a film with a low running time.

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Six (TV series)

Six (stylized as SIX) is an American military drama television series.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author.

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Stop-Loss (film)

Stop-Loss is a 2008 American war drama film directed by Kimberly Peirce and starring Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum, Abbie Cornish and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as young soldiers whose experience in the Iraq War leaves them psychologically shattered.

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Stop-loss policy

In the United States military, stop-loss is the involuntary extension of a service member's active duty service under the enlistment contract in order to retain them beyond their initial end of term of service (ETS) date and up to their contractually agreed end of active obligated service (EAOS).

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The Godfather

The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same title.

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The L Word

The L Word is a television drama series that aired on Showtime in the US from 2004 to 2009.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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This Film Is Not Yet Rated

This Film Is Not Yet Rated is a 2006 American documentary film about the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system and its effect on American culture, directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Eddie Schmidt.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Transgender

A transgender person (often shortened to trans person) is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.

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Turn: Washington's Spies

Turn: Washington's Spies (originally titled Turn and stylized as TURИ: Washington's Spies) is an American period drama television series based on Alexander Rose's book Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring (2007), a history of the Culper Ring.

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