The American Dream and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

The American Dream and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-163

  Winn, J Emmett ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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