Circulations of taste: Titanic, the Oscars, and the middlebrow

Movie Blockbusters

Volumn 9781315012919, Issue , 2013, Pages 155-166

  Roberts, Gillian ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315012919     Document Type: Chapter

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