"A documentary-style film": Borat and the fiction/nonfiction question

Narrative

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-132

  MacLeod, Lewis ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 79959775214     PISSN: 10633685     EISSN: 1538974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nar.2011.0001     Document Type: Review

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