Stars and stories: How films became branded products

An Economic History of Film

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 48-85

  Bakker, Gerben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203358047     Document Type: Chapter

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