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Style over Substance?: Fashion, Spectacle and Narrative in Contemporary US Television 风格重于实质?当代美国电视中的时尚、奇观与叙事

Popular Narrative Media Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.3828/PNM.2009.5

H. Warner

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