Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Barbara Gowdy, Germaine Dulac, Anne Michaels

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G
• Professor: Daniel Robinson

Document Summary

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