Neo-feminist cinema: Girly films, chick flicks and consumer culture

Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-227

  Radner, Hilary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203855218     Document Type: Book

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