From Jinn to genies: Intertextuality, media, and the making of global folklore

Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 93-112

  Peterson, Mark Allen ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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