Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, Paperback - Morris Dickstein

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Provides the first academic monograph dedicated to developing a cultural understanding of the werewolf film.Illustrations: 25 B/W illustrations

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Translation of: Schlafender Lotos, trunkenes Huhn.

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