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When cinema borrows from stage: theatrical artifice through indexical explicitness in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and Dogville

Roberta PiazzaSchool of English, University of Sussex, Brighton, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 366-384 | Published online: 02 Jun 2016

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