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Horrors of war : the undead on the battlefield / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
| Horrors of war : the undead on the battlefield / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.43/6581 |
| Soggetto topico |
War films - History and criticism
Horror films - History and criticism Supernatural in literature - History and criticism Horror tales - History and criticism War in literature |
| ISBN |
1-4422-5111-5
1-4422-5112-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. MONSTROUS ENEMIES; CHAPTER 1. "Blood-Thirsty Graybacks: "THE MONSTROUS OTHERING OF THE CONFEDERACY IN ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER; CHAPTER 2. Cry "Havoc!" and Let Slip the Vampires of War; CHAPTER 3. Vampire Pilots and Industrialized War in The Bloody Red Baron; CHAPTER 4. Nazis on the Moon! Nazisunder the Polar Ice Cap!: AND OTHER RECENT EPISODES IN THE STRANGE CINEMATIC AFTERLIFE OF THE THIRD REICH; Part II. THE DEAD DON'T REST; CHAPTER 5. The Wages of War: SPECTRAL CHILDREN IN THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE
CHAPTER 6. Traversing the Afterlife Fantasy: THE HAUNTED SOLDIER IN JACOB'S LADDERCHAPTER 7. The Haunted Tank; CHAPTER 8. (Re)Remembering the Great War in Deathwatch; CHAPTER 9. The U.N.dead: COLD WAR GHOSTS IN CAROL FOR ANOTHER CHRISTMAS; Part III. MAKING MONSTERS; CHAPTER 10. Pall in the Family: DEATHDREAM, HOUSE, AND THE VIETNAM WAR; CHAPTER 11. Strategic Military Reconfiguration in Horror Fiction: THE CASE OF F. PAUL WILSON'S THE KEEP AND GRAHAM MASTERTON'S THE DEVILS OF D-DAY; CHAPTER 12. Horror under the Radar: MEMORY, REVELATION, AND THE GHOSTS OF BELOW CHAPTER 13. The Supernatural, Nazi Zombies, and the Play Instinct: THE GAMIFICATION OF WAR AND THE REALITY OF THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXPart IV. LEGACIES AND MEMORIES; CHAPTER 14. "Strange Things Happen in a War-Torn Land": CAT DEMONS, SAMURAI, VICTIMS' VENGEANCE, AND THE SOCIAL COSTS OF WAR IN KANETO SHINDO'S KURONEKO (1968); CHAPTER 15. Public Memory and Supernatural Presence: THE MYSTERY AND MADNESS OF WEIRD WAR TALES; CHAPTER 16. War in The Twilight Zone: ROD SERLING'S HAUNTED VISIONS OF WORLD WAR II CHAPTER 17. Specters of Media: JACQUES TARDI'S GRAPHIC REANIMATION OF THE WAR OF THE TRENCHESCHAPTER 18. R-Point as Postcolonial Palimpsest: GENERIC COMPLEXITY AND THE GHOST IN THE WAR/HORROR FILM; Index; About the Editors and Contributors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788284103321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Horrors of war : the undead on the battlefield / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
| Horrors of war : the undead on the battlefield / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.43/6581 |
| Soggetto topico |
War films - History and criticism
Horror films - History and criticism Supernatural in literature - History and criticism Horror tales - History and criticism War in literature |
| ISBN |
1-4422-5111-5
1-4422-5112-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. MONSTROUS ENEMIES; CHAPTER 1. "Blood-Thirsty Graybacks: "THE MONSTROUS OTHERING OF THE CONFEDERACY IN ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER; CHAPTER 2. Cry "Havoc!" and Let Slip the Vampires of War; CHAPTER 3. Vampire Pilots and Industrialized War in The Bloody Red Baron; CHAPTER 4. Nazis on the Moon! Nazisunder the Polar Ice Cap!: AND OTHER RECENT EPISODES IN THE STRANGE CINEMATIC AFTERLIFE OF THE THIRD REICH; Part II. THE DEAD DON'T REST; CHAPTER 5. The Wages of War: SPECTRAL CHILDREN IN THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE
CHAPTER 6. Traversing the Afterlife Fantasy: THE HAUNTED SOLDIER IN JACOB'S LADDERCHAPTER 7. The Haunted Tank; CHAPTER 8. (Re)Remembering the Great War in Deathwatch; CHAPTER 9. The U.N.dead: COLD WAR GHOSTS IN CAROL FOR ANOTHER CHRISTMAS; Part III. MAKING MONSTERS; CHAPTER 10. Pall in the Family: DEATHDREAM, HOUSE, AND THE VIETNAM WAR; CHAPTER 11. Strategic Military Reconfiguration in Horror Fiction: THE CASE OF F. PAUL WILSON'S THE KEEP AND GRAHAM MASTERTON'S THE DEVILS OF D-DAY; CHAPTER 12. Horror under the Radar: MEMORY, REVELATION, AND THE GHOSTS OF BELOW CHAPTER 13. The Supernatural, Nazi Zombies, and the Play Instinct: THE GAMIFICATION OF WAR AND THE REALITY OF THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXPart IV. LEGACIES AND MEMORIES; CHAPTER 14. "Strange Things Happen in a War-Torn Land": CAT DEMONS, SAMURAI, VICTIMS' VENGEANCE, AND THE SOCIAL COSTS OF WAR IN KANETO SHINDO'S KURONEKO (1968); CHAPTER 15. Public Memory and Supernatural Presence: THE MYSTERY AND MADNESS OF WEIRD WAR TALES; CHAPTER 16. War in The Twilight Zone: ROD SERLING'S HAUNTED VISIONS OF WORLD WAR II CHAPTER 17. Specters of Media: JACQUES TARDI'S GRAPHIC REANIMATION OF THE WAR OF THE TRENCHESCHAPTER 18. R-Point as Postcolonial Palimpsest: GENERIC COMPLEXITY AND THE GHOST IN THE WAR/HORROR FILM; Index; About the Editors and Contributors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816149003321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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International westerns : re-locating the frontier / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
| International westerns : re-locating the frontier / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Scarecrow Press, Inc., , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (477 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.43/65878 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MillerCynthia J
Van RiperA. Bowdoin |
| Soggetto topico | Western films - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8108-9288-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part I. DUELING INDUSTRIES; Ch01. THE GHOSTS OF MODERNIZATION; Ch02. ON THE SPATIAL IDEOLOGY OF TURKISH CINEMA (THE WEST AS "OUTSIDE"); Ch03. THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN IS A DEFA INDIAN; Ch04. (DIS)RESPECTING WINNETOU; Part II. PARODIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD; Ch05. VISIONS OF THE WEST IN LUCKY LUKE COMICS; Ch06. COMEDY, CAPITALISM, AND KOLALOKA; Ch07. UPSETTING THE GENRE'S GENDER STEREOTYPES; Ch08. TOUGH GUYS OF THE PRAIRIE; Part III. THE WESTERN HERO DECONSTRUCTED; Ch09. INTO THE WEST; Ch10. EL TOPO; Ch11. "YOU GOT THE WRONG F***IN' BLACK MAN!"
Ch12. THE SELF-EXILED HEROPart IV. SOCIAL BANDITS AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES; Ch13. O CANGACEIRO (1953) AND THE BRAZILIAN NORTHEASTERN; Ch14. "THEY SING SONGS ABOUT US HERE"; Ch15. READING DOST-DUSHMAN; Ch16. ITALIAN D.O.C.; Part V. UNEXPECTED ROOTS; Ch17. WESTERN FILMS THROUGH GERMAN EYES; Ch18. WESSEX GOES WEST; Ch19. "THE EAST IS A DELICATE MATTER"; Ch20. THE SWORD AND THE SIX-SHOOTER; INDEX; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453756403321 |
| Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Scarecrow Press, Inc., , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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International westerns : re-locating the frontier / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
| International westerns : re-locating the frontier / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Scarecrow Press, Inc., , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (477 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.43/65878 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MillerCynthia J
Van RiperA. Bowdoin |
| Soggetto topico | Western films - History and criticism |
| ISBN | 0-8108-9288-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part I. DUELING INDUSTRIES; Ch01. THE GHOSTS OF MODERNIZATION; Ch02. ON THE SPATIAL IDEOLOGY OF TURKISH CINEMA (THE WEST AS "OUTSIDE"); Ch03. THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN IS A DEFA INDIAN; Ch04. (DIS)RESPECTING WINNETOU; Part II. PARODIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD; Ch05. VISIONS OF THE WEST IN LUCKY LUKE COMICS; Ch06. COMEDY, CAPITALISM, AND KOLALOKA; Ch07. UPSETTING THE GENRE'S GENDER STEREOTYPES; Ch08. TOUGH GUYS OF THE PRAIRIE; Part III. THE WESTERN HERO DECONSTRUCTED; Ch09. INTO THE WEST; Ch10. EL TOPO; Ch11. "YOU GOT THE WRONG F***IN' BLACK MAN!"
Ch12. THE SELF-EXILED HEROPart IV. SOCIAL BANDITS AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES; Ch13. O CANGACEIRO (1953) AND THE BRAZILIAN NORTHEASTERN; Ch14. "THEY SING SONGS ABOUT US HERE"; Ch15. READING DOST-DUSHMAN; Ch16. ITALIAN D.O.C.; Part V. UNEXPECTED ROOTS; Ch17. WESTERN FILMS THROUGH GERMAN EYES; Ch18. WESSEX GOES WEST; Ch19. "THE EAST IS A DELICATE MATTER"; Ch20. THE SWORD AND THE SIX-SHOOTER; INDEX; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790750603321 |
| Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Scarecrow Press, Inc., , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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International westerns : re-locating the frontier / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
| International westerns : re-locating the frontier / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Scarecrow Press, Inc., , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (477 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.43/65878 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MillerCynthia J
Van RiperA. Bowdoin |
| Soggetto topico | Western films - History and criticism |
| ISBN | 0-8108-9288-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part I. DUELING INDUSTRIES; Ch01. THE GHOSTS OF MODERNIZATION; Ch02. ON THE SPATIAL IDEOLOGY OF TURKISH CINEMA (THE WEST AS "OUTSIDE"); Ch03. THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN IS A DEFA INDIAN; Ch04. (DIS)RESPECTING WINNETOU; Part II. PARODIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD; Ch05. VISIONS OF THE WEST IN LUCKY LUKE COMICS; Ch06. COMEDY, CAPITALISM, AND KOLALOKA; Ch07. UPSETTING THE GENRE'S GENDER STEREOTYPES; Ch08. TOUGH GUYS OF THE PRAIRIE; Part III. THE WESTERN HERO DECONSTRUCTED; Ch09. INTO THE WEST; Ch10. EL TOPO; Ch11. "YOU GOT THE WRONG F***IN' BLACK MAN!"
Ch12. THE SELF-EXILED HEROPart IV. SOCIAL BANDITS AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES; Ch13. O CANGACEIRO (1953) AND THE BRAZILIAN NORTHEASTERN; Ch14. "THEY SING SONGS ABOUT US HERE"; Ch15. READING DOST-DUSHMAN; Ch16. ITALIAN D.O.C.; Part V. UNEXPECTED ROOTS; Ch17. WESTERN FILMS THROUGH GERMAN EYES; Ch18. WESSEX GOES WEST; Ch19. "THE EAST IS A DELICATE MATTER"; Ch20. THE SWORD AND THE SIX-SHOOTER; INDEX; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816362203321 |
| Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Scarecrow Press, Inc., , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The laughing dead : the horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller A. Bowdoin Van Riper
| The laughing dead : the horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller A. Bowdoin Van Riper |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.43/6164 |
| Soggetto topico |
Horror films - History and criticism
Comedy films - History and criticism |
| ISBN | 1-4422-6833-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Playing with genre. "Oy, have you got the wrong vampire": dislocation, comic distancing, and political critique in Roman Polanski's The fearless vampire killers / Thomas Prasch -- Zany zombies, grinning ghosts, silly scientists, and nasty Nazis: comedy-horror at the threshold of World War II / Christina M. Knopf -- "The limeys are coming, Barbara, and they're laughing!": the art of the romeroesque in Shaun of the dead and Dead set / Steve Webley -- Undead in the city: The vampire's kiss (1988) and its kin / Gary D. Rhodes -- Beyond fear in The book of life: discussions on children, death, and Latinidad / Eric César Morales -- Horror, in theory. The humor of William Castle's gimmick films / Murray Leeder -- "We're not all dead yet": humor amid the horror in James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein / Martin F. Norden -- Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein (1948): laughing in the face of an uncertain future / Deb Carmichael -- Humor in vampire films: the vampire as joker / Mary Y. Hallab -- Queerness and the undead female monster / Lisa Cunningham -- Rules for surviving a horror comedy: satiric genre transformation from Scream to Zombieland / Chris Yogerst -- There goes the neighborhood. Better living through zombies: assessing the allegory of consumerism & empowerment in Andrew Currie's Fido / Michael C. Reiff -- Undead anarchy in Ghostbusters / A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- The queer and the dead: transgressive sexuality in Shaun of the dead / Shelley S. Rees -- Undead in Suburbia: teaching children to love thy neighbor, fangs and all / Leila Estes and Katherine Kelp-Stebbins -- Some assembly required: the do-it-yourself Undead / Cynthia J. Miller. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798368203321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The laughing dead : the horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller A. Bowdoin Van Riper
| The laughing dead : the horror-comedy film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller A. Bowdoin Van Riper |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.43/6164 |
| Soggetto topico |
Horror films - History and criticism
Comedy films - History and criticism |
| ISBN | 1-4422-6833-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Playing with genre. "Oy, have you got the wrong vampire": dislocation, comic distancing, and political critique in Roman Polanski's The fearless vampire killers / Thomas Prasch -- Zany zombies, grinning ghosts, silly scientists, and nasty Nazis: comedy-horror at the threshold of World War II / Christina M. Knopf -- "The limeys are coming, Barbara, and they're laughing!": the art of the romeroesque in Shaun of the dead and Dead set / Steve Webley -- Undead in the city: The vampire's kiss (1988) and its kin / Gary D. Rhodes -- Beyond fear in The book of life: discussions on children, death, and Latinidad / Eric César Morales -- Horror, in theory. The humor of William Castle's gimmick films / Murray Leeder -- "We're not all dead yet": humor amid the horror in James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein / Martin F. Norden -- Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein (1948): laughing in the face of an uncertain future / Deb Carmichael -- Humor in vampire films: the vampire as joker / Mary Y. Hallab -- Queerness and the undead female monster / Lisa Cunningham -- Rules for surviving a horror comedy: satiric genre transformation from Scream to Zombieland / Chris Yogerst -- There goes the neighborhood. Better living through zombies: assessing the allegory of consumerism & empowerment in Andrew Currie's Fido / Michael C. Reiff -- Undead anarchy in Ghostbusters / A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- The queer and the dead: transgressive sexuality in Shaun of the dead / Shelley S. Rees -- Undead in Suburbia: teaching children to love thy neighbor, fangs and all / Leila Estes and Katherine Kelp-Stebbins -- Some assembly required: the do-it-yourself Undead / Cynthia J. Miller. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828366203321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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What's eating you? : food and horror on screen / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
| What's eating you? : food and horror on screen / / edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (383 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 791.43/6564 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cannibalism in motion pictures
Food in motion pictures Horror films - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-5013-2240-0
1-5013-2239-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Let the eater beware. Death at the drive-thru: fast food betrayal in Poultrygeist and Bad taste -- Cynthia J. Miller -- Let them eat steak: food and the family horror cycle -- Hans Staats -- Much still depends on dinner: cannibalism and culinary carnival in Shaun of the dead (2004) and Zombieland -- Sue Matheson -- Dumplings: the commodification of cannibalism and the liminal condition of consumption -- Alex Pinar and Salvador Murguia -- The goo in you: eating (and being eaten) in The stuff -- A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Sins of the flesh. Cannibalism as cultural critique: Peter Greenaway's The cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover (1989) and Thatcherism -- Thomas Prasch -- "The red gums were their own": food, flesh, and the female in Beloved -- Bart Bishop -- "Do I look tasty to you?": cannibalism beyond speech and the limits of food capitalism in Park's 301 -- 302 -- Tom Hertweck -- Flesh and blood in Claude Chabrol's Le boucher -- Jennifer L. Holm -- A hunger for dead cakes: visions of abjection, scapegoating and the sin eater -- Ralph Beliveau -- The extreme end of consumption. Coprophagia as class and consumerism in the human centipede films -- Mark Henderson -- Eat, kill " love" courtship, cannibalism, and consumption in Hannibal -- Michael Fuchs and Michael Phillips -- Catering to the cult of Ishtar: blood feast -- Rob Weiner and A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- From gourmet to gore: Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Delicatessen -- Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Cynthia J. Miller -- Who can be eaten? consuming animals and humans in the cannibal-savage horror film -- Erin E. Wiegand -- You are what others think you eat: food, identity, and subjectivity in zombie protagonist narratives -- Luanne Roth -- From sugar-fueled killer to grotesque gourmand: the culinary maturation of the cinematic serial killer -- Mark Bernard -- Consumption, cannibalism, and corruption in Jorge Michel Grau's Somos lo que hay -- Stacy Rusnak -- Sinister pastry: British "meat" pies in Titus and Sweeny Todd -- Vivian Halloran -- All-consuming passions: vampire foodways in contemporary film and television -- Alexandra Frank. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910158608403321 |
| New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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