Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film & Television Melodrama
- ISBN-10
- 0814320651
- ISBN-13
- 9780814320655
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 619
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Author
- Marcia Landy
Description
On melodrama.
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- 2002-03-29
- 338 pages
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- 351 pages
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