“You’ve been in my life so long I can’t remember anything else”: Into the labyrinth with Ripley and the Alien

Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 35-51

  Gibson, Pamela Church ^a  

^a LONDON COLLEGE OF FASHION   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203165195-9     Document Type: Chapter

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