Mookie as "wavering hero": Do the Right Thing and the American historical romance

Literature-Film Quarterly

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 9-18

  Bartley, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

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