"It's only a piece of meat": Gender ambiguity, sexuality, and politics in The Crying Game and M. Butterfly

Cinema Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 3-28

  Grist, Leighton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 60950131473     PISSN: 00097101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cj.2003.0016     Document Type: Review

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