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Accommodating the mess: the politics of re-appropriation in Duncan Campbell's It For Others (2013)

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Accommodating the mess: the politics of re-appropriation in Duncan Campbell's It For Others (2013). / Blair, Paula.
2015. Paper presented at The Real and the Intermedial, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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Blair, P 2015, 'Accommodating the mess: the politics of re-appropriation in Duncan Campbell's It For Others (2013)', Paper presented at The Real and the Intermedial, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 23/10/15 - 24/10/15. <http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences/the-real-and-the-intermedial>

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Blair, P. (2015). Accommodating the mess: the politics of re-appropriation in Duncan Campbell's It For Others (2013). Paper presented at The Real and the Intermedial, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences/the-real-and-the-intermedial

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Blair P. Accommodating the mess: the politics of re-appropriation in Duncan Campbell's It For Others (2013). 2015. Paper presented at The Real and the Intermedial, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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Blair, Paula. / Accommodating the mess : the politics of re-appropriation in Duncan Campbell's It For Others (2013). Paper presented at The Real and the Intermedial, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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