“I’ll see it when i believe it”: Rodney King and the prison-house of video

The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television and the Modern Event

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 69-88

  Tomasulo, Frank P ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203700396-12     Document Type: Chapter

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