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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hedges, Inez, date.

Breaking the frame : film language and the experience of limits /

Inez Hedges.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-253-32722-9 (cloth). — ISBN 0-253-20621-9 (paper)

1. Motion pictures—Philosophy.2. Motion pictures and

literature.I. Title.

PN1995.H398 1991

791.43’01—dc20

90-38728

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