Watching Twin Bracelets in China: The role of spectatorship and identification in an ethnographic analysis of film reception

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 603-632

  Friedman, Sara L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Ethnographic practice; Film; Gender; Identity; Media reception; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749569440     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/can.2006.21.4.603     Document Type: Article

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