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Introduction: The Family Melodrama of Classical Narrative Cinema

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Jane M. Gaines
Jane M. Gaines
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https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822396345-001
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    January 1992
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Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars

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Jane M. Gaines
Jane M. Gaines

Jane Gaines is Associate Professor of English and Literature and Director of the Film and Video Program at Duke University. She is the author of Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law.

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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-9634-5
Publication date:
1992

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