American Movies' "Closest Equivalent to Restoration Comedy"
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عنوان ژورنال: Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media
سال: 2009
ISSN: 2562-5764,1192-6252
DOI: 10.15353/kinema.vi.1197