Sacred and profane: Mae West's (re) presentation of western religion

Over the Edge: Remapping the American West

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 50-64

  Watts, Jill ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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2. Mae West, Way Out West, Tower T-5028, 1964.
3. Emanuel Cohen, prod. Go West, Young Man (Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1936; re-released Los Angeles: MCA/Universal Video, 1993).
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29. Ramona Curry, "Mae West as a Censored Commodity: The Case of Klondike Annie," Cinema Journal (Winter 1993), 57-84.
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