Between the Front Lines: Vocational Training Films, Machine Guns and the Great War

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Between the Front Lines: Vocational Training Films, Machine Guns and the Great War. / Hoof, Florian.
Cinema's Military Industrial Complex. Hrsg. / Haidee Wasson; Lee Grieveson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. S. 177-191.

Publikation: Beiträge in SammelwerkenAufsätze in SammelwerkenForschungbegutachtet

Harvard

Hoof, F 2018, Between the Front Lines: Vocational Training Films, Machine Guns and the Great War. in H Wasson & L Grieveson (Hrsg.), Cinema's Military Industrial Complex. University of California Press, Berkeley, S. 177-191. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520291508.003.0010

APA

Hoof, F. (2018). Between the Front Lines: Vocational Training Films, Machine Guns and the Great War. In H. Wasson, & L. Grieveson (Hrsg.), Cinema's Military Industrial Complex (S. 177-191). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520291508.003.0010

Vancouver

Hoof F. Between the Front Lines: Vocational Training Films, Machine Guns and the Great War. in Wasson H, Grieveson L, Hrsg., Cinema's Military Industrial Complex. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2018. S. 177-191 doi: 10.1525/california/9780520291508.003.0010

Bibtex

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