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Negotiating Special Relationships: Susanne Bier’s Comedies 谈判特殊关系:苏珊娜·比尔的喜剧

ReFocus: The Films of Susanne Bier Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428729.003.0003

Gunhild Agger

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Susanne Bier’s Boundary-crossing Screen Authorship Susanne Bier的跨界银幕创作

ReFocus: The Films of Susanne Bier Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.3366/EDINBURGH/9781474428729.003.0001

M. Molloy, M. Nielsen, Meryl Shriver-Rice

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A Conversation with Susanne Bier 与Susanne Bier的对话

ReFocus: The Films of Susanne Bier Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428729.003.0014

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Susanne Bier’s Hollywood Experiments: Things We Lost in the Fire and Serena 苏珊娜·比尔的《好莱坞实验:我们在火中迷失的东西》和《瑟琳娜》

ReFocus: The Films of Susanne Bier Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428729.003.0004

M. Molloy

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Storytelling Schemes, Realism, and Ambiguity: Susanne Bier’s Danish Dramas 讲故事的方式、现实主义和模糊性:苏珊娜·比尔的丹麦戏剧

ReFocus: The Films of Susanne Bier Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.3366/EDINBURGH/9781474428729.003.0002

Birger Langkjær

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