Genre

A Companion to Film Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 25-44

  Berry Flint, Sarah ^a  

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Author keywords

Consumers; Film genres; Market segmentation; Poetics; Romantic movement

Indexed keywords

EID: 62849088866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470998410.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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