Seeing through the layers: Fat suits and thin bodies in the nutty professor and shallow hal

The Fat Studies Reader

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 280-288

  Mendoza, Katharina R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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