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Book Title: Production Culture : Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television
Number of Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Topic: Television / Direction & Production, Television / General, Film / Direction & Production, Film / History & Criticism, Industries / Entertainment
Publication Year: 2008
Item Height: 1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Performing Arts, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Author: John Thornton Caldwell
Item Length: 8.8 in
Book Series: Console-Ing Passions Ser.
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
