Automobile advertisements: The magical and the mundane

Car Troubles: Critical Studies of Automobility and Auto-Mobility

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 37-57

  Conley, Jim ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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