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Book Title: The French Screen Goddess: Film Stardom And The Modern Woman...
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6.1in
Author: Jonathan Driskell
Publication Name: French Screen Goddess : Film Stardom and the Modern Woman in 1930s France
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, The Limited
Publication Year: 2015
Series: International Library of the Moving Image Ser.
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
