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A Recipe for Life: Constructing the Biopic through New Media

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A Recipe for Life: Constructing the Biopic through New Media. / Nissen, Annie.
A Companion to the Biopic. Wiley, 2020.

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Nissen A. A Recipe for Life: Constructing the Biopic through New Media. In A Companion to the Biopic. Wiley. 2020 Epub 2019 Nov 25. doi: 10.1002/9781119554783.ch21

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