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Seeing Sarah Bernhardt: Performance and Silent Film Paperback - 2015
by Victoria Duckett
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- Title Seeing Sarah Bernhardt: Performance and Silent Film
- Author Victoria Duckett
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 248
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date 2015
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780252081163 / 0252081161
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Bernhardt, Sarah - Career in motion pictures, Motion picture industry - France - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015012975
- Dewey Decimal Code 792.028
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