Every Other Day: Lena Dunham's 'Girls'

Firmly grounded in its contemporary setting, Lena Dunham's series wrings emotion from its depiction of the familiar and the mundane. Discussing the show's provenance and antecedents, Adrian Martin unpacks its sophisticated visual language; its radical departure from the text to which it has invited so many comparisons, Sex and the City; and its boundary-pushing depictions of sex and bodies.

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New & Notable, senior secondary, Orson Welles, Carolee Schneemann, Cindy Sherman, Tiny Furniture, mumblecore, gender, friendship, sexuality, pornography, HBO