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Reading Idiot Box : Film reviews intertwining the social and cultural

Kathleen Mee Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, Discipline of Geography, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia
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Robyn Dowling Department of Human Geography, Macquarie University, NSW, 2109, Australia
Pages 185-199 | Published online: 05 Nov 2010

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