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HA3463 B-Films and Serials | Readinglists@Leicester 09/26/21 HA3463 B-films and serials | readinglists@leicester HA3463 B-films and serials View Online Abel, Richard. (2006). Americanizing the movies and ‘movie-mad’ audiences, 1910-1914. University of California Press. http://ezproxy.lib.le.ac.uk/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/leicester/Doc?id=10132126 Abrams, Jerold J. (2007). The philosophy of Stanley Kubrick: Vol. Philosophy of popular culture. University Press of Kentucky. http://ezproxy.lib.le.ac.uk/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/leicester/Doc?id=10443240 Aizenberg, E. (n.d.). I Walked with a Zombie: The Pleasures and Perils of Postcolonial Hybridity. World Literature Today, 73(3), 461–466. http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/searchFulltext.do?id=R01238134&divLevel=0&area=abell&for ward=critref_ft Allain, Marcel, Souvestre, Pierre, & Ashbery, John. (2006). Fantômas: Vol. Penguin classics. Penguin Books. Andrew, Geoff. (1998). 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African American Review, 38(2), 323–334. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1512294?&Search=yes&searchText=%2522one+false+move% 2522&list=hide&searchUri=%252Faction%252FdoBasicSearch%253FQuery%253D%25252 2one%252Bfalse%252Bmove%252522%2526acc%253Don%2526wc%253Don%2526fc%2 53Doff&prevSearch=&item=2&ttl=116&returnArticleService=showFullText Chion, Michel. (2001). Kubrick’s cinema odyssey. British Film Institute. Cholodenko, A. (n.d.). The ‘ABCs’ of B, or: to B and not to B: Article. Film-Philosophy. http://www.film-philosophy.com/index.php/f-p/article/view/102 Cline, William C. (1994). Serials-ly speaking: essays on cliffhangers. McFarland. Cline, William C. (1998). In the nick of time: motion picture sound serials. McFarland. Cocks, Geoffrey. (2004). The wolf at the door: Stanley Kubrick, history, and the Holocaust: Vol. Contemporary film, television, and video. Peter Lang. Cook, P. (1976). Film Culture: ‘Exploitation’ films and feminism. 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