'When You Walk Through These Doors, You Can Be Anything You Want': Authenticity, Fantasy and Neoliberal Ideology in Hotel Babylon

Journal of British Cinema and Television

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 113-131

  Harper, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85048901859     PISSN: 17434521     EISSN: 17551714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/E1743452108000101     Document Type: Article

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